Word: terrorization
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...veteran jihadist and J.I.'s overall leader. And just a few months earlier, the police uncovered an arsenal of deadly bombmaking materials in another house in central Java, including potassium, TNT, detonators and ammunition for a grenade launcher, all of which might have been used for a massive new terror attack...
...Since the first Bali bombings five years ago, Indonesia has transformed itself from a country riddled with radical Islamist movements and terror threats - Indonesians once called autumn "the bombing season" because attacks had become so regular - to one of the world's few triumphs in fighting terrorism. Even better, Jakarta has succeeded without resorting to the draconian antiterror tactics increasingly preferred by governments from Sri Lanka to Iraq...
...recent years, Indonesian authorities have arrested or killed some 300 alleged militants. Indonesia has won removal from the Financial Action Task Force's list of nations not complying with global standards on fighting money laundering and terror, and earned praise from the U.S. State Department, which lauds its "new urgency on counterterrorism." The International Crisis Group's Southeast Asia project director, Sidney Jones, probably the world's leading expert on Indonesian terror, agrees, concluding that J.I. is "certainly much weaker" today than ever before...
...This is the third crisis to test the mettle of the new government. Since Brown became Prime Minister at the end of June, he and his ministers have handled terror attacks in London and Glasgow, and serious flooding in several parts of the country. His sobersided approach has struck a chord with the electorate, and polls detect a "bounce" in support for Labour since Brown's arrival, which has fueled talk of a snap election as early as this fall to give Brown his own mandate. That's an especially tempting prospect for Labour after the Conservative opposition mishandled...
...scrapping of its nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs - an act the U.S., Britain, and other Western governments had demanded as prerequisite for renewing relations with Tripoli. Bilateral contacts have increased since, including partnerships between Western and Libyan intelligence services that Gaddafi and European officials credit for thwarting terror attacks on both sides of the Mediterranean. Outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair traveled to Tripoli in May to hail Libya's "completely transformed" behavior, and predicted that the flourishing security and defense relationship between the two nations would soon be followed by a business boom as well...