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...insight into the compartmentalized nature of the terrorists' command structure?and the possible decisive role of the three top suspects?was given by Amrozi, the first member of the bombing team to be apprehended. According to a source familiar with a lengthy Nov. 15 interrogation, Amrozi disclosed that the target of the group's main bomb was changed at the last moment by the intervention of three mysterious strangers, in all likelihood the same three "top guns" now heading the police's secret most wanted list. (After testifying, the 39-year-old mechanic signed the 70-plus-page transcript with...
...most likely target for those future attacks is now unquestionably Jakarta's much diminished expatriate community, which has been alarmed by a series of increasingly shrill warnings from Western embassies about the impending threat. An ever-growing security clampdown now sees most hotels, and some shopping malls, guarded by groups of machine-gun-toting soldiers and officials who frisk pedestrians and subject entering vehicles to detailed examinations that include a sweep of the chassis with flashlight and mirror-equipped poles. Some of the city's most popular expat watering holes?such as the usually packed BATS at the Shangri...
...fighters abseiling down the walls of the "hotel" with grenades leave no doubt what this is: a training manual for an assault on a resort 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...
...Filipinos need no reminding that they are squarely in the sights of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), and the presence of U.S. troops may have made the archipelago an even more tempting target. A year ago, an explosion rocked the Metro Railway Transit, killing 22 and injuring hundreds of others. The attack was carried out by Indonesian Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi, a self-confessed JI member with links to the Philippines' two major Islamic guerrilla groups, the MILF and the Abu Sayyaf. After his January capture in Manila, al-Ghozi said he carried out the bombings on the orders of JI operations...
...rackets, not international terrorists groups. But no one is taking any chances. While publicly dismissing the possibility of an imminent strike the government has at the same time bolstered security in some of the most popular tourist haunts, at airports and around its porous borders. "We are not a target for international terrorists," insists government spokesman Sita Divari, but he adds: "We are conscious and prepared." By Andrew Perrin/Bangkok...