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...most wanted fugitive in Southeast Asia, Riduan Isamuddin was used to a life on the run. For most of the past two years, he hopscotched across Asia, slipping in and out of Pakistan, Indonesia and Thailand, hiding in safe houses and eluding pursuers from several countries, including the U.S. During that time, Isamuddin--known as Hambali, al-Qaeda's top operative in Asia--allegedly masterminded a string of terrorist attacks, including last October's nightclub bombings in Bali and the bombing of the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta this month. Two weeks ago, Hambali moved into a one-bedroom apartment...
...March, when U.S. and Pakistani forces captured Mohammed, al-Qaeda's military commander. Since then, responsibility for recruiting new al-Qaeda operatives and coordinating their activities had largely been turned over to Hambali, whose group, Jemaah Islamiah, originally strived to create a pan-Islamic state but instead has turned Southeast Asia into a terrorist haven...
What the U.S. does know is that Hambali played a central role in the spread of terrorism throughout Southeast Asia. Born into a family of farmers and Islamic scholars in Sukamanah, West Java, Hambali headed off to join the mujahedin in Afghanistan in the mid-1980s. He later moved to Malaysia, where he teamed up with Abubakar Ba'asyir, a fundamentalist Indonesian cleric. In the mid-1990s, Hambali began raising money and recruiting militants to join some jihadist groups. Meanwhile, Hambali established ties to bin Laden, serving on al-Qaeda's consultative council and lending financial and logistical help...
...made his debut on the stage of global terrorism in December 2000, when he is believed to have orchestrated a series of church bombings in eight cities in Indonesia, killing 19. After 9/11, Hambali's profile inside al-Qaeda rose when bin Laden ordered him to launch attacks in Southeast Asia to distract U.S. forces from their assault in Afghanistan, says Abuza. Early last year Hambali met with his lieutenants in Thailand and instructed them to attack soft targets--restaurants, bars and nightclubs frequented by Western tourists. Nine months later, Jemaah Islamiah detonated two bombs at two nightclubs in Bali...
Feeding the cows, cleaning out the pigpen and weeding the potato beds - that's the routine Irina Zhbanova grew up with in Perkhlyai, a desolate village of 740 souls in the depressed Russian republic of Mordovia, 600 km southeast of Moscow. But for the past three years, Zhbanova, 14, has been following another daily routine: for two hours early in the morning and two more after school, she practices her aces and backhands, flat serves and chip shots, footwork and block volleys. "Trying harder makes up for my starting in tennis too late," she says. "All right...