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...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 global terrorism. TIME consulted intelligence officials and security experts for this survey of Islamic terrorist networks...
...Such concerns were highlighted earlier this year when Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong revealed that Mas Selamat Kastari, the "most dangerous" of the 12 or so members of the Singapore Jemaah Islamiah cell who escaped arrest and fled the country, had been planning an attempt to crash a plane into Singapore's Changi Airport. The airport is now reportedly protected by anti-aircraft missiles, as are the huge refinery facilities on the island's southwest section of Jurong, where multinationals such as Shell and Exxon Mobil maintain large facilities. In mid-October Singapore deployed units of its armored division around...
...Islamiah. That was followed on Nov. 18 by the charging of one of the men raided, a west-Australian convert to Islam, with conspiring to blow up Israeli diplomatic missions in Australia. Jack Roche has protested his innocence, despite giving remarkably frank interviews to The Australian newspaper before his arrest describing his training in Afghanistan in the use of explosives and a meeting in Malaysia with terrorist chief Hambali to discuss the recruitment of JI operatives back home...
...Australian government's upgrading of the state of alert, the day after Roche's arrest, that raised awareness of the domestic terror threat. The government of Prime Minister John Howard said its new information?linked neither to the raids nor to Roche's case?was "general and non-specific as to target and timing" but suggested a terrorist strike could hit Australia over the next few months. In what is normally a wind-down time of year, with the summer holidays approaching, Australians are now being urged to stay ultra vigilant. By Lisa Clausen/Sydney...
...until the Bali bombings?Indonesia, Australia and Thailand?are precisely where JI has had most freedom of movement. It's not hard to deduce why Bali struck JI as an ideal target. After all, JI was more constrained in mounting an operation in Singapore and Malaysia, thanks to the arrest of operatives there, the seizure of assets and heightened security. In Australia, JI cells were almost all support and not combat units. In Thailand, important JI functionaries were present. In Indonesia the JI infrastructure was fully operational. As the security of U.S. and other diplomatic missions was tightened in Jakarta...