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...least one other cache of explosives in the city. Sources say a suspected JI agent arrested in April confessed that he had delivered 660 lbs. to two senior JI operatives. Early analysis of the composition and design of the Marriott bomb suggests one of those operatives, Malaysian geophysicist and alleged JI bombmeister Azahari Husin, played a key role in the attack. "The momentum is still going for JI," says Mick Keelty, head of the Australian Federal Police, which has joined the investigation of the Marriott bombing. "It's almost as though we've woken a sleeping giant." --By Simon Elegant...
...Police believe both were instrumental in the Bali plot, with Azahari responsible for designing and assembling the main bomb. The pair managed to evade police and are still at large. Early analysis of the composition and means of detonation of the Marriott bomb indicate the handiwork of Azahari, a Malaysian geophysicist who literally wrote the book on bombing for JI, having penned a manual discovered by police last year. "He's an expert at surveying locations and designing bombs for specific targets," says a source close to the investigation...
...when the criticism comes from near neighbors, even juntas may have to take notice. Early last week, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad raised the extraordinary prospect of expelling Burma from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) if the Nobel peace laureate isn't freed. The frustrated Prime Minister says the junta's continued intransigence "has affected our [ASEAN's] credibility." Mahathir's comments were echoed by Philippine Foreign Minister Blas Ople on the sidelines of a meeting last week of Asian and European foreign ministers in Bali...
...Alias, police say, was once a student of Azahari bin Husin, the Malaysian professor who they believe was chiefly responsible for building the Bali bombs. Azahari, the author of a JI manual on bomb building, came within a whisker of being captured by Indonesian police in early June. According to regional intelligence sources familiar with the events, Azahari and another suspect in the Bali blasts were tracked down to a town in southern Sumatra. Alerted that something was wrong when police moved in to arrest a third JI suspect in the same town, Azahari and his companion fled, escaping moments...
...Malaysian Prime Minister, criticizing the U.S. war in Iraq...