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...Iraq the old regime wanted to avoid military retaliation or invasion, so it made sense to shun collaboration with Osama bin Laden's maximal terrorists. But since Saddam and his loyalists have lost their state, the prudence that deterred them from working with the jihadists is gone. Together or alone, the radicals must strike in Iraq, the newest "field of jihad." That phrase, redolent of Scripture, is actually a modern coinage to refer to a theater of operations for the Islamist insurgency. There are many: the U.S. and Europe have emerged as central fields of jihad, along with Egypt, Algeria...
Hambali could prove to be an important asset. CIA interrogators are attempting to pump him for information about future attacks and the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden's dwindling inner circle. According to a U.S. intelligence official, an al-Qaeda detainee told the U.S. that Hambali had been trying to recruit pilots for a 9/11-like plot that might have involved suicide hijackings, but it is not known whether the captive was telling the truth and, if he was, when or where the plot would have taken place. And while it is unlikely that Hambali knows the precise coordinates...
...join the mujahedin in Afghanistan in the mid-1980s. He later moved to Malaysia, where he teamed up with Abubakar Ba'asyir, a fundamentalist Indonesian cleric. In the mid-1990s, Hambali began raising money and recruiting militants to join some jihadist groups. Meanwhile, Hambali established ties to bin Laden, serving on al-Qaeda's consultative council and lending financial and logistical help to the group's plots, including a 1995 plan to blow up 12 U.S. passenger jets over the Pacific...
Hambali made his debut on the stage of global terrorism in December 2000, when he is believed to have orchestrated a series of church bombings in eight cities in Indonesia, killing 19. After 9/11, Hambali's profile inside al-Qaeda rose when bin Laden ordered him to launch attacks in Southeast Asia to distract U.S. forces from their assault in Afghanistan, says Abuza. Early last year Hambali met with his lieutenants in Thailand and instructed them to attack soft targets--restaurants, bars and nightclubs frequented by Western tourists. Nine months later, Jemaah Islamiah detonated two bombs at two nightclubs...
...Omar al-Faruq, a senior al-Qaeda operative captured in Indonesia in 2002. Spirited away to a U.S. air base in Afghanistan, the Kuwaiti endured day after day of interrogation, including long periods of isolation and sleep deprivation. When al-Faruq finally cracked, he admitted he was Osama bin Laden's most senior operative in southeast Asia, and detailed a network of terror in the region whose scope was beyond anything previously imagined. Ominously, he told his interrogators that despite his arrest, back-up operatives were already in place to "assume responsibilities to carry out operations as planned." Three months...