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...ABDUL AZI HAJI CHIMING, MUHAMMAD YALALUDIN MADING and SMAN ESMA EL, alleged members of the militant Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.) organization; for plotting to bomb the U.S. and British embassies in Cambodia, to life in prison; in Phnom Penh. The three men denied any involvement with the plot or the terrorist group, saying they had met Hambali?allegedly J.I.'s former operations chief?while working for a Saudi Arabian-funded charity that helped poor Cambodian Muslims. Hambali and two other foreigners, identified as Rousha Yasser and Ibrahim, were tried and sentenced in absentia...
...proportions," but that was an understatement - the tragedy was quintessentially international. Europe and the entire world watched the disaster unfold on television and the Internet - images that inevitably brought to mind the Bali terrorist bombing of 2002 - and slowly came to grips with the scope of the catastrophe. "It was awful," said Astrid von Sternheim, 27, as she waited at Frankfurt Airport for her parents Werner and Diana to arrive from Patong Beach in Phuket. "We saw the pictures on television and recognized the street and the hotels." Her parents survived because they happened to be on an upper floor...
...Keelty believes a terrorist strike on Australian soil is all but inevitable. "The only reason why I say it's more likely to occur than not is there's nothing in this country that makes us immune from terrorist attack," he says. "We have to be vigilant, and until this point in time we have been ? The problem we are dealing with is how do you fight an idea? How do you counterbalance a philosophy that uses religious following to advance its views? It's very difficult." A first domestic step, he says, is interfaith dialogue and reaching...
...would be easy to slip into pessimism, says Keelty. But the job of keeping Australia - and the region - safe from terrorists requires prescience, problem solving and perseverance, so that in 2010 we don't look back and "say to ourselves we wish we had done more in 2004." "The reality is that we're doing a lot at the moment. It is frustrating that the bombings have continued," he says. "But it's not for want of trying." While the A.F.P.'s 25th-anniversary year has been a fast treadmill, the results have continued to come. In Suva, Fijian police...
...President’s son was under serious suspicion of being involved in the scandal. Imagine that the “independent” government investigation was being paid for with funds from the program itself. Imagine that some of the money skimmed off was used to fund a terrorist insurgency. Finally, imagine that the scandal permeated the government to such a degree that national security decisions were influenced...