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...Megawati Sukarnoputri placed her political career before national and regional security. Even after Bali, Jakarta is only going after JI members directly connected to the Kuta bomb blast, not JI as an organization and not its political wing?the Mujahidin Council led by Abubakar Ba'asyir?or its militia?Laskar Jundullah led by Agus Dwikarna. As a result, JI will be able to strike again inside Indonesia and continue to use Indonesia as a launching pad for attacks on its neighbors...
...outside the Sari Club. (Investigators believe that both of those bombs were also detonated by remote control.) "There is no doubt that this was a sophisticated attack," said an Australian Federal Police investigator. High-level police sources tell TIME that one Islamic group is of particular interest: Sulawesi-based Laskar Jundullah, the same group al-Qaeda whistle-blower Omar al-Faruq told the CIA he'd helped establish with Agus Dwikarna, an Indonesian businessman. Dwikarna was arrested last March at a Manila airport after security guards found plastic explosives and detonation cables in his suitcase. He's now serving...
According to a foreign intelligence report, al-Faruq told the CIA he helped Dwikarna establish Laskar Jundullah, a militant Islamic group dedicated to forming an Islamic state and involved in attacks on Christian villages in central Sulawesi province. Beginning in mid-1999, al-Faruq claims, he launched a succession of audacious but generally unsuccessful terrorist plots. In May of that year, al-Faruq met with several potential accomplices at a villa in west Java and hatched a plan to kill current Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri, who was then a candidate for the presidency. The plot involved buying weapons in Malaysia...
...Deal Christian and Muslim leaders from the eastern Maluku Islands signed a deal to end sectarian violence that has killed thousands of civilians over the past three years. Negotiators met on neighboring Sulawesi island and signed an agreement to surrender all weapons and set up joint security patrols. But Laskar Jihad militants from Java, responsible for a sharp escalation in the fighting last year, were not represented...
...backing one side or the other. "Whenever we try and do something, it seems like someone from the top stops it," he says. But Rudi, a Javanese Muslim, has no doubt about what would be an indispensable, giant step toward peace: "It would be much safer without the Laskar Jihad. The locals all want peace, but the people from outside keep the fighting going...