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...late-'90s in Malaysia. But the same reluctance can be seen in Indonesia years later. In his confession to U.S. interrogators, al-Qaeda's point man in Southeast Asia, Omar al-Faruq, described aborting a plan to bomb a U.S. Navy ship docked in the Indonesian port of Surabaya last May because he couldn't find non-Arab volunteers willing to die in the operation...
...according to Indonesia's police chief. General Da'i Bachtiar interrogated the laughing suspect, a 40-year-old car mechanic called Amrozi, in front of journalists - but behind glass doors. Amrozi admitted owning the van used to carry the bomb and to visiting a shop in the city of Surabaya to buy the chemicals used in the bomb. His brother, Ali Imron, is also implicated in the bombing. MEANWHILE Bach Pain If the compositions of Bach and Mozart send some listeners into raptures, they also send some folks packing. Danish railway authorities used high-volume broadcasts of Bach's organ...
...abraded surface of the engine block, forensic experts teased out the numbers that were etched in the metal. Once they had the registration of the van, investigators were on a path that led to Amrozi's home village of Tenggulun, about 200 kilometers west of the port city of Surabaya...
...local wild boy, riding a motorcycle and dropping out of high school. After spending about six years in Malaysia, he returned a changed man, dressed in the close-collared gamis and loose pants of an Islamic boarding school student, and started taking unexplained trips out of town. The Surabaya-based Jawa Post reports that Rozi did some boasting a few years ago, telling buddies he had been involved in the Christmas bombings in Jakarta in 2000, which have been blamed on Jemaah Islamiah. At the time, nobody paid any heed to Rozi. They should have...
...military campaign against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Abu Zubaydah told al-Faruq that he should plan to return soon to Kuwait, but in the meantime, al-Faruq was to set in motion new terrorist missions. Knowing the U.S. Navy was scheduled to conduct joint exercises in the Surabaya harbor in late May, al-Faruq plotted a suicide attack against a U.S. ship, similar to the deadly al-Qaeda operation against the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen in 2000. He drafted a Somali operative named Gharib to help find Arabs willing to participate in the suicide mission. But when he failed...