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...attacks are far more ominous than these determinedly stoic reactions might suggest. What they demonstrate is that something fundamental has changed?that the terror threat, both in Indonesia and beyond, has mutated into a new and more elusive creature that may be far harder to combat. In 2002, the operation involved more than a dozen individuals who spent months and tens of thousands of dollars assembling nearly a ton of explosives. This time, police speculate that only six plotters, including the suicide bombers, may have been involved. Their equipment? A few sticks of TNT, some sacks of ball-bearings, nine...
...During a Bangkok terror summit in 2002, J.I.'s then-operations chief, Riduan Isamuddin (a.k.a. Hambali, now in U.S. custody), ordered Azahari and Nurdin to plan attacks on "soft" Western targets in Indonesia, according to a J.I. member who was present and who is now under house arrest in Malaysia. Since then, the two have eluded Indonesia's largest ever manhunt. Azahari, whom captured accomplices have testified has a habit of accompanying his bombers to within a few hundred meters of their targets, has had no less than six breathtakingly narrow escapes from arrest over three years...
...Asian governments need to fight terror on multiple fronts. Both Indonesia and the Philippines should enact stern counterterrorism laws. Indonesia should ban J.I., enabling the country's security agencies to move decisively against it. And it should clean up the radical madrasahs that breed extremists, subjecting them to tougher law enforcement and pressuring Muslim religious and educational organizations to police them. In the Philippines, the authorities should shut down training camps through intelligence-led military action and through talks with the main Muslim militant group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front...
...terror also requires societies to build an ethic against politically and religiously instigated violence. Any counterterrorism strategy must include a capability and willingness to negotiate with those Islamic groups with legitimate grievances and that are willing to end the violence. Radical Islamic schools need to be re-educated so that they become proponents of peace, and the media must inform the public about what terrorism really is: unjustifiable murder of the innocent. Everyone has to play a role. Only then...
False reassurances from the government and newspapers added to the death rate. They also destroyed trust in authority, as Americans quickly realized they were being lied to. The result: society began to break apart. Confidential Red Cross reports noted "panic akin to the terror of the Middle Ages of the plague" and victims starving to death "not from lack of food but because the well are afraid to help the sick." Doctors and nurses were kidnapped. One scientist concluded that if the epidemic continued to build, "civilization could easily disappear from the face of the earth within a few more...