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...TIME that at 5 a.m. on Nov. 8, the day before the raid in which Azahari died, Yahya emerged from the Batu house. Having tapped Yahya's mobile phone, authorities believed he was on his way to meet Azahari's suspected chief accomplice, fellow Malaysian Nurdin Mohammed Top, in Semarang in Central Java. Yahya apparently spotted his tails during the journey. The police source says Yahya tried to detonate an explosives vest he was wearing but was arrested and later admitted he was a courier passing messages between Azahari and Nurdin. The source says that the information provided by Yahya...
...United States Institute of Peace, Azahari has been passing his skills to a new generation of bombmakers who will be "only too eager to show their skills and avenge their teacher's death." Indeed, last Friday security forces found a videotape with instructions in bombmaking at a Semarang house they suspect was recently occupied by Nurdin. Police say the tape also contained statements by the Oct. 1 Bali suicide bombers in which they declare they will go straight to paradise once they die. The fear remains that more aspiring bombers may be walking Indonesia's streets with heaven-and murder...
...Islamic militants would probably soon detonate a bomb in the capital and tacitly acknowledged that they could do little to prevent it. A captured Islamic militant confessed that he had delivered two carloads of bombmaking materials to the capital. And a police raid in the central Java city of Semarang uncovered papers outlining areas of Jakarta earmarked for attack by Jemaah Islamiah (JI), a network allied to al-Qaeda and tied to last year's Bali bombing...
...Jakarta, leaving 10 dead and 150 wounded. Within days, police said they had identified the bomber--by virtue of a severed head recovered from the building. But could more have been done to prevent the attack? A source close to the investigation says four JI suspects arrested in the Semarang raid identified the Marriott as one of many potential targets. Police insist they tightened security around those targets, but Marriott managers say they were left in the dark...
...Senior Indonesian police sources concede to TIME that they were in possession of information about possible JI strikes in the days before the attack. One source close to the investigation says followup interrogation of four JI suspects arrested in the Semarang raid yielded specific information that the Grand Hyatt, Mulia and the Marriott were possible hotel targets. Also mentioned were the Citraland and Kelapa Gading malls in Jakarta, along with various sites used by Christian congregations. Although police insist that they were increasing security in these areas, in the case of the Marriott, the hotel's management says no warning...