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...pastimes for Islamic fundamentalists. Either evil has got a lot more stupid, or as an Interpol officer in Indonesia says, 'This was most likely done to keep the police busy'?perhaps by a branch of Indonesia's fractious military intelligence or by an outside provocateur. True or not, the plot failed to materialize and Dec. 4 passed without incident. Note for next time: terrorists usually don't sign their work...
...soldiers stomp out Abu Sayyaf, a kidnap-extortion gang on Basilan holding two Americans and one Filipino hostage. The gang once had ties to al-Qaeda, notably through Ramzi Yousef, who tried destroying the World Trade Center in February 1993 and two years later planned the Manila-based Bojinka Plot to blow 11 airliners out of the sky over the Pacific. Since then, Abu Sayyaf's links have atrophied. At this point, cracking down on Abu Sayyaf, as beneficial as it will be to local security, will likely have little impact on eradicating global terrorism...
...Philippines in 1990 to study computer programming. In late 1994 he married. By then, according to Philippine intelligence reports, he had linked up with Ramzi Yousef who was in the Philippines between late 1994 and January 1995 training Abu Sayyaf on Basilan and later hatching the Bojinka Plot. That plot got busted on Jan. 6, 1995, when a chemical fire broke out in one of the bombmakers' apartments. Yousef fled Manila but was eventually picked up in Pakistan and sent for trial in the U.S. Masrie was detained in a general crackdown but was subsequently released. He left the Philippines...
...Intelligence sources in Manila believe that Selamah was already in the al-Qaeda cell at the time of the Bojinka Plot, and has apparently become Khalifa's successor as al-Qaeda's point man in the insurgency-wracked south. Intelligence analysts tell TIME that while al-Qaeda assisted in the training of Abu Sayyaf in the mid-90s, bin Laden's network was closely monitoring the MILF as a larger and better organized vehicle for Islamic revolution. In the second half of the '90s the MILF, under the leadership of its chairman Hashim Salamat, was also developing its own contacts...
...move put Nair a bit out of the loop. She followed up with cable-TV films and some lukewarmly received features, including Kama Sutra, an over-the-top costume (and often costume-less) drama. Monsoon, with five plot lines and (by Nair's count) 68 characters, feels like her first real epic, but it started small. It cost only about $2 million and the shoot took 30 days, with up to four scenes a day filmed on handheld cameras. Although it's been a smash with critics, Monsoon Wedding isn't up for a foreign-film Oscar this year - India...