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<p>Khalid Shaikh Mohammed shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan on Saturday.</p>

Mohammed Abbas, the mastermind of the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro, has arrived in Cairo for talks with Egyptian officials on proposals to stop terrorist attacks against civilians in Israel. Abbas was invited to Cairo by Gen. Omar Sulieman, the head of Egyptian intelligence, to convince various Palestinian groups to work out a joint strategy regarding the future of the uprising. Sulieman has met over the past few weeks with representatives of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Peoples [Communist] Party, in addition...

INDONESIAN police last night caught the mastermind of the Bali bombing in western Java as he attempted to flee to neighbouring Sumatra. Imam Samudra, aka Abdul Azis, was captured by police in Merak, at the northwestern tip of Java, about 9pm Sydney time as he was boarding a ferry. Samudra had with him several bodyguards who were also arrested at the port town, 140km from Jakarta. Indonesian police chief Dai Bachtiar last night confirmed the arrest and said it planned to take him to either Jakarta or Bali for questioning. On Sunday, police named Samudra, aged in his 30s, as...

Police name mastermind of Kuta nightclub bombings as senior figure in terror group By Kathy Marks 18 November 2002 Police in Bali have named the mastermind of last month's bomb attack as an Indonesian man believed to be a senior operative with a regional terrorist organisation. Imam Samudra, alias Hudama, is thought to lead one of four South-east Asian chapters of Jamaah Islamiya (JI), an Islamist extremist group linked with the al-Qa'ida network. Intelligence officials believe he met JI's operations chief, Riduan Isammudin, in Thailand in January to plan the attack. The chief investigator, General I Made Mangku Pastika, said...