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Southeast Asia Al-Habib Muhammad Rizieq bin Hussein Syihab, leader of the pro-Suharto radical Muslim group FPI (Defenders of Islam), and his storm troopers may, after two years of apparent immunity from the process of law and order, be about to be brought to account. Police over the weekend arrested 13 members of the FPI after violent attacks on several of the capital's nightspots by an estimated 600 members. A discotheque was stoned and the equipment at two late-night pool bars destroyed. Although the FPI has been consistently vandalizing and looting such entertainment venues for at least two years, there have...