Word: samudra
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...have taken part in the plot. One of them is a man called Amrozi, who has confessed to transporting explosives to the site and was arrested a month after the bombings in his home village hundreds of miles from Bali on the island of Java. Another is Imam Samudra, allegedly one of the key planners of the attack, who was picked up on Nov. 21 after Indonesian police tracked his cell phone. TIME has discovered, however, that investigators believe the incident's real godfathers--those described by one Western intelligence source in the region as the "top tier...
...Iqbal, evidence suggests he was unlucky. After all, the bombmaking expertise of Imam Samudra, the alleged coordinator of the Bali bombing and the man who passed Iqbal the explosives, is questionable. During a wave of bombings across Indonesia that left 19 dead over Christmas 2000, in which Samudra said he played an instrumental role, three of the attackers died when their devices exploded prematurely. Even more telling is the story of the last bomber Samudra personally sent out on a mission before Bali: the hapless Taufik Abdul Halim. According to his own court testimony, Taufik was dispatched to a Jakarta...
...Could the same thing have happened in Paddy's? Very possibly, police investigators say. But police also say it is Samudra who, after his arrest, told them Iqbal was a suicide bomber. General I Made Mangku Pastika, head of the Bali investigation, thinks the apparent contradiction is easily resolved. He says Samudra is claiming Iqbal deliberately killed himself "in order to cover responsibility to the family." In other words, the man alleged to have played a key role in the massacre of nearly 200 people feels guilty that he may have also caused the death of a fellow terrorist...
...That's an alarming thought, especially given that the chubby, all-too-ordinary-looking Samudra casually revealed during his interrogation that he had been plotting fresh attacks. Without elaborating, General I Made Mangku Pastika, head of the Bali investigation, said at a press conference that "there are indications Samudra had a new plan." With each such reminder of the remorseless commitment of terrorists like Imam Samudra, we can only wonder not whether the next attack in Indonesia will come, but where and how soon...
...complex. The video, one of a batch of al-Qaeda tapes found outside Kabul this month, is a chilling reminder of the range of targets al-Qaeda and its proxies like Jemaah Islamiah are preparing to attack. With each new arrest?last week Indonesian investigators nabbed Bali bomber Imam Samudra while the U.S. announced it had apprehended al-Qaeda's Persian Gulf chief Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri?authorities learn more about how to thwart global terrorism. TIME consulted intelligence officials and security experts for this survey of Islamic terrorist networks and the threat level in Asia's possible target...