Word: sumatra
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...Indeed, the two carloads of bombmaking materials that one militant confessed to transporting into Jakarta aren't the only resource JI members have at their disposal. Indonesian police say that a suspected JI operative named Rusdi, arrested by police in April in Pekanbaru, Sumatra, has confessed that he left 300 kilograms of explosives in the hands of Azahari bin Husin and Nurdin Mohammed Top, two senior JI operatives with whom he was traveling when he was apprehended. Police believe both were instrumental in the Bali plot, with Azahari responsible for designing and assembling the main bomb. The pair managed...
...bombs. Azahari, the author of a JI manual on bomb building, came within a whisker of being captured by Indonesian police in early June. According to regional intelligence sources familiar with the events, Azahari and another suspect in the Bali blasts were tracked down to a town in southern Sumatra. Alerted that something was wrong when police moved in to arrest a third JI suspect in the same town, Azahari and his companion fled, escaping moments before the police arrived. That narrow miss could have grave consequences. "Commanders like Azahari are the dangerous ones," says a senior regional intelligence official...
Very early on the morning of May 10, 1883, a lighthouse keeper gazing out at the Sunda Strait, which separates Sumatra from Java, saw the surface of the ocean suddenly whiten, go still, then become oil-slick smooth. Like an unsuspecting sorority girl in a horror movie, he shrugged it off as insignificant--just part of the region's usual seismic background noise. Ninety-nine days later, the nearby volcanic island of Krakatoa exploded, producing probably the loudest sound heard in human history and killing more than 36,000 people...
...became the book "Westward, Ha!" Perelman, in a paean to his pal, described Hirschfeld as "a pair of liquid brown eyes, delicately rimmed in red, of an innocence to charm the heart of the fiercest aborigine, and a beard which could engulf everything from a tsetse fly to a Sumatra tiger. In short, a remarkable combination of Walt Whitman, Lawrence of Arabia, and Moe, my favorite waiter at Lindy...
...UNHCR is handling requests from 33 parents who want their children back from Hasan's Lemorai Foundation, some of them scattered as far afield as Sumatra and Sulawesi. Reunions, however, are not likely to happen quickly for those in Hasan's care?or for hundreds of other displaced East Timorese children. The U.N. can only make requests. After that it's up to the Indonesian authorities. I. Gusti Wesaka Puja, the official handling the issue at the Foreign Ministry in Jakarta, says the government is doing all it can to help. But "the fact is we have other priorities that...