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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2005/04/005585print.html
April 03, 2005
JI planning another Bali-scale terrorist attack, says paper
More caliphate dreams in Indonesia, and more mayhem plotted in service of those dreams. From The Star, with thanks to Nicolei:
JAKARTA: Planning is well under way for a terrorist attack in Indonesia this year that could be as devastating as the 2002 Bali bombings, according to a document obtained by The Straits Times.
The document is a letter from a Sumatran-based operative of the Jemaah Islamiah which tells of militants being trained for suicide bombings in the capital.
It was written to the network's top bomb maker Azahari Husin, a Malaysian who has been on the run after plotting three of Indonesia's worst terrorist strikes.
A leading Indonesian security official and terrorism expert believes the note is authentic.
Dated Nov 26, 2004, the seven-page letter is written in pidgin Arabic, which is used by religious clerics in boarding schools here.
Ansyaad Mbai, a senior Indonesian counter-terrorism official who studied the letter, said: "It is a credible document and corroborates some of our findings in the field that there will be another bombing."
They chose a letter to communicate because the Internet and telephones in the region are being monitored closely, a fact acknowledged in the document itself.
The letter also names Palembang and Padang in Sumatra as hiding places for "the tools" of a future terrorist operation.
Ansyaad, who heads the counter-terrorism desk in the Co-ordinating Ministry for Politics and Security, estimated that there were up to 30 JI members involved.
"Indonesia is facing an imminent Bali-style attack from these radicals," he said. "The cells might be splintered but they are still being held together by a common jihadist ideological platform to build an Islamic Caliphate in the region."...
Posted at April 3, 2005 07:28 AM
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http://www.saag.org/papers14/paper1312.html
Paper no. 1312
30. 03. 2005
"MINI SUBMARINE-A VESSEL OF CHOICE WITH DRUG CARTELS AND TERRORISTS"
Guest Column-by Dr Vijay Sakhuja
ARTCILE SNIPPET: "What was perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the find was that Russian-language manuals with Spanish translations were recovered. In 1997, Colombian gangs had been suspected of trying to buy a diesel-powered Russian submarine. Highly professional Russian engineers may have also been helping to build the submarine.
Similarly, the LTTE attempts to build a mini submarine in Phuket, Thailand were uncovered. In April 2000, Christie Reginald Lawrence, a Sri Lankan born Norwegian citizen, was caught by the police, while building a mini submarine with a Norwegian Engine at the Sea Craft Company a shipyard jointly owned by Lawrence, a Thai and an American national."