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...planning the suicide attack on the destroyer USS Cole opened in Sanaa. The attack, in Aden harbor in October 2000, left 17 American sailors dead. Alleged mastermind Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri is in U.S. custody and is being tried in absentia. Another Round INDONESIA Retired general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono led in the first round of voting in the presidential election with early results giving him a 33% share of the vote. He appears likely to face a run-off in September against incumbent President Megawati Sukarnoputri, who placed second with 26%. MEANWHILE IN BRITAIN ... Henry's Va-Va-Voom...
...mistake, noting: "the problem of Aceh is not a security problem but a problem of conscience. The issue is returning dignity to the Acehnese, giving them rights with a genuine regional autonomy." But in political opinion polls, Wiranto is currently lagging behind the top contender, former Security Minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who supervised the imposition of martial law in Aceh. "There seems to be no way out," says Kingsbury. "It could take a generation before the two sides can get back to the negotiating table with any hope of success...
...vote, according to official results. The result is a blow to President Megawati Sukarnoputri, whose ruling PDI-P party came in second with 18.5% of the votes, down from 33.7% in 1999. Megawati faces re-election in July, and trails her former Security Minister, retired army general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. She also faces competition from another ex-general, the Golkar candidate, Wiranto, who has been indicted for crimes against humanity by a U.N.-backed court in East Timor. Power Play HONG KONG In the biggest show of force since Hong Kong's 1997 handover to China, eight Chinese naval vessels...
...that's true, the mandate has slipped from her grasp at the most inopportune time imaginable. Campaigning has just begun for Indonesia's first direct presidential election, set for July 5, and the incumbent is suddenly beset by credible challengers. One is Megawati's former Security Minister, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, leader of Partai Demokrat, a new populist party. Another is Wiranto, a former general under Suharto, who last week was nominated as Golkar's presidential candidate...
...forced to resign in 1998. Nostalgia is growing for the Suharto era, when prices were stable and economic growth strong, and that could benefit both Golkar and a party recently formed by Suharto's daughter, Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana. Another threat is posed by Megawati's former security chief, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of the Democrat Party, who rivals his former boss in opinion polls. Even so, Megawati remains the candidate to beat in July, thanks to her pedigree as daughter of Indonesia's founding President Sukarno. No other Indonesian politician has the same national recognition as the woman referred...