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| Southeast Asia |
| Terrorist groups rebuilding in Indonesia |
| 2004-10-01 |
| THE masterminds behind the Australian embassy bombing are building new extremist networks close to Jakarta to launch fresh attacks, Indonesia's top counter-terrorism official has warned. As elite police continue their hunt for the bombers, arresting a man named Uyok Saefuloh in the village of Kebon Pedes, counter-terror chief Ansyaad Mbai said there was evidence the blast may not have been the work of Jemaah Islamiah as such. Ansyaad, who heads the anti-terrorism office in Indonesia's security ministry, said Malaysian bombmaker Azahari Husin and suicide bomb recruiter Noordin Top were building a new terror network, because JI ranks had been decimated by arrests. |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |
| #2 JI ranks decimated by arrests . . . The reason the terrorists are reorganizing: Incoming president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono says that "an all-out crackdown against extremists would be launched soon after his inauguration next month" and that Yudhoyono has "a mandate to ignore conservative Islamic opposition" . . . Ansyaad said. "I am sure he will be more tough and more decisive." Ya got that right! |
| Posted by: ex-lib 2004-10-01 10:00:33 AM |
| #1 shouldn't the headline read: JI ranks decimated by arrests |
| Posted by: 2b 2004-10-01 9:35:04 AM |