Thank you for that post Cindy.
A young Indonesian militant with close links to al-Qaida is now in charge of the Southeast Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah, which remains dangerous despite more than 270 arrests since 2000, a top counterterrorism official said Wednesday.
Abu Dujana's rise to power within Jemaah Islamiyah is an indication the group's organizational structure remains intact, and highlights the challenges that remain for police fighting terrorism in the world's most populous Muslim nation.
Dujana, who learned bomb-making skills in Afghanistan alongside Hambali, an alleged regional terror chief now in U.S. custody, is a "talented leader. He has good relations with al-Qaida and is trusted", said Col. Petrus Reinhard Golose of Indonesia's counterterrorism task force.
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http://www.tkb.org/NewsStory.jsp?storyID=112301
Homeland Security focuses on South America's tri-border area
Mar. 22, 2006
SAO PAULO, Brazil
Agents of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will soon start arriving in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay to help local authorities combat money laundering and other financial crimes such as "terrorism financing," the U.S. Embassy said on Wednesday.
An undetermined number of agents from Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, or ICE, are due to arrive in Brazil within 60 days, and in neighboring Argentina and Paraguay a few weeks later.
Working with local law enforcement and customs officials, they will set up "trade transparency units" to investigate and prosecute money laundering, alternative remittance systems, terrorist financing, contraband smuggling, tax evasion and other crimes" the agency said in a statement.
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