Indonesia Police Say Warned of Militant Threats
June 11, 2004 — JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia has been warned by a foreign intelligence agency about possible attacks from an al Qaeda-linked radical group and is searching for militants who might have slipped into the country, the country's police chief said on Friday.
General Da'i Bachtiar said police had been searching for the militants but had so far come up empty-handed.
"There is intelligence information from overseas stemming from a number of people detained in the Philippines," he said when asked about possible new modes of attack by Jemaah Islamiah in Indonesia that might target foreign ambassadors.
The Wall Street Journal and the Far Eastern Economic Review magazine have reported regional militant network Jemaah Islamiah had sent an assassination squad to Indonesia.
He said that Indonesia had porous borders and if militants entered illegally they would be very hard to find.
"We have been working to search for them, but up until now we haven't found them," Bachtiar told reporters.
Australia said on Friday it was investigating reports that Jemaah Islamiah had sent a squad trained in assassination techniques to target Australians, Americans, Britons and other Westerners in Indonesia.
Prime Minister John Howard said he was seeking more information about the report, which said assassins from the al Qaeda-linked group had slipped into Indonesia in recent weeks from Mindanao in the Philippines.
Western security agencies fear Jemaah Islamiah could be changing its tactics from bombing to targeted killings of Westerners, similar to al Qaeda's strategy in Saudi Arabia where attacks on Westerners are hitting the economy and driving an exodus of foreign workers.
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Court Revisits Case of French Nazi Collaborator [Only taking orders, must clear his name] DW World ^ | 6-11-04
Posted on 06/11/2004 11:12:29 AM EDT by SJackson
The case of a high French official convicted of Nazi war crimes is active once again: A French court is reviewing the request for an appeal by Maurice Papon, unleashing anger in the Jewish community.
France's highest court on Friday will once again take up the case of 93-year-old convicted Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon -- the most senior official from the pro-Nazi Vichy regime tried for crimes against humanity and for helping send Jews to Nazi death camps.