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...arrest of the alleged terrorist mastermind Hambali by Thai police [WORLD, Aug. 25] demonstrates that police work in Pakistan, Yemen and now Thailand can result in the capture of terrorist bigwigs. It's hard to avoid the thought that the Bush Administration's preferred policy of war is largely show business. Police investigations are dull, while war is flashy. And politicians are eager to show they're doing something, not just sitting around. PAUL KUNINO LYNCH Katoomba, Australia...
...judge by the boastful headlines, you might think Bombay's police had eliminated the city's terrorist threat at a stroke by killing a supposed bombing mastermind in the center of the metropolis last Friday night. "Black Monday's 'brain' shot dead," trumpeted the Indian Express. The truth may not be quite so heartening...
...Bombay's terror problem didn't die with Nasir. For a start, police have linked him with only three of the seven blasts that have killed 74 people in India's financial capital since December 2002. Police and intelligence agents also privately admit that this "mastermind" was head of just one of four or five Muslim terrorist cells operating in Bombay. "It would be naive," says Javed Ahmad, the city's second most senior policeman, "to think there aren't any more modules or men around...
...known killer...He is no longer a problem." PRESIDENT BUSH, on the capture of Hambali, the suspected mastermind of the bombings in Bali and at Jakarta's JW Marriott hotel...
...Bangkok before his arrest. Under interrogation, they add, he also made it clear he thinks JI will function just fine without him. For one thing, Azahari is by no means the only leading figure still at large. Recent news reports suggested that Zulkifli Marzuki, JI's alleged financial mastermind and key link to al-Qaeda, was nabbed in Cambodia in June. But intelligence officials tell TIME he remains in hiding. "While Zulkifli is still out there, JI has the ability to fund more attacks," says one official...