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...possible, U.S. officials say, that they'll air the list within weeks. But there's no certainty, and Washington has a record of plodding along the region's money trail: two JI leaders, including Riduan Isamuddin, a.k.a. Hambali, had their assets frozen in January?16 months after the Treasury Department sought to have them designated as terrorists. Many intelligence analysts say such moves would be symbolic but important steps toward cutting off JI's financial lifeblood. The repeated delays suggest that JI will have money to burn for some time...
...Davao attack proves that terrorists are still out there, and as dangerous as ever. Despite the crackdown around Southeast Asia since late 2001, some very troubling characters remain at large, including Riduan Isamuddin, a.k.a. Hambali, JI's operational commander; Saifullah Yunos, a.k.a. Muklis, leader of a JI cell; and Azahari bin Husin, allegedly the man who designed the Bali bombs. And those are just the most wanted?a roster that doesn't include members of sleeper cells that may be lying in wait across the region. What's more, a U.S.-led war in Iraq could be a powerful rallying...
...code name Mukhlas, refers to the time he met bin Laden in Afghanistan during a three-year stay there. In the confession, a copy of which TIME has seen, Mukhlas says he believes the $25,000 that he and other plotters were given for the Bali operation by Riduan Isamuddin, J.I.'s operations chief also known as Hambali, may have originally come from bin Laden. Bali investigators are also looking into the possibility that a hardened al-Qaeda operative named Syafullah--a Yemeni who entered Indonesia on a fake U.S. visa--may have been in charge of mixing the chemicals...
...weeks after the Singapore plot was foiled, according to an FBI report, a meeting of terrorists took place in a village in southern Thailand. The gathering was held at the behest of Riduan Isamuddin, a leader of an organization based in Indonesia called Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) that has long been suspected of acting as a cover for terrorist acts. Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, fought in Afghanistan with the anti-Soviet mujahedin in the 1980s and is wanted by authorities in Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia. He was last seen in January 2001, when Indonesian authorities sought his arrest...
...region's Muslims practice a moderate, tolerant form of Islam that utterly rejects the idea that slaughtering innocent civilians is a method of holy warfare. Gunaratna concedes that when it comes to the crunch, most militants balk at kamikaze-style attacks. He recounts a telling anecdote about Riduan Isamuddin, a.k.a. Hambali, the suspected leader of the regional terror network Jemaah Islamiah (JI), widely blamed for the Bali blasts and other deadly bombings. Hambali once asked a group of about 20 potential JI recruits how many would be willing to give up their lives for the cause. "Only one fellow...