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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia has extended for two more years the imprisonment of a terror suspect linked to al-Qaeda's attempts to produce chemical and biological weapons, saying he has more information about terrorist operations. Yazid Sufaat, a U.S.-trained biochemist and former Malaysian army captain, was arrested in late 2001 as he returned home from Afghanistan, where officials say he was working on a biological and chemical weapons program for al-Qaeda that was ended by the U.S.-led war. Since then, he has been held without trial under Malaysia's Internal Security Act on accusations of being a member of Jemaah...

AP: New Terror Chief Planning Attacks By STEVEN GUTKIN Associated Press Writer JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- The purported new military chief of a Southeast Asian terror group is among a handful of Indonesians in direct contact with al-Qaida and is now considered the most lethal terrorist in Asia, plotting fresh attacks in the region, officials told The Associated Press. Known as Zulkarnaen, the highest ranking Jemaah Islamiyah leader still on the loose is believed to head an elite squad that helped carry out a suicide bombing at a Jakarta hotel that killed 12 people, in addition to helping prepare bombs...

BALI bombing mastermind Hambali has told interrogators how al-Qaida funded the attack that killed 202, including 88 Australians, a year ago today. The terrorist is being held under strict security by US intelligence agents on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. Hambali, also known as Riduan Isamuddin, also has told agents al-Qaida wanted to build a bio-weapons plant in Indonesia to produce weapons to deliver the deadly biological agent anthrax. He revealed that the Islamic network of terrorist cells known as Jemaah Islamiah had recruited American-trained scientist Yazid Sufaat to oversee the project. He has studied chemistry at California...

APNewsAlert ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Younger brother of Hambali, al-Qaida's suspected point man for Southeast Asia, is arrested on immigration charges in Pakistan, senior Interior Ministry official says. MORE...

JAKARTA: The alleged mastermind of the deadly Bali bombing has admitted he knows a suspected leading al-Qaeda operative called Hambali, Indonesian police said Wednesday. National police chief General Da’i Bachtiar said Imam Samudra, who was arrested last Thursday while on the run after Bali, previously denied knowing Hambali “but after we showed him evidence, he admitted knowing him.” Hambali, an Indonesian whose real name is Riduan Isamuddin, is being hunted by five governments. He is the suspected operations chief of Southeast Asian militant group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) and is also believed to be a leading member of Osama bin Laden’s...

efreedomnews         WAR ON TERRORISM - AN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE Bali Explodes: Jemaah Islamiah - al Qaida at Workefreedomnews.comOctober 13, 2002 First, a small explosion went off outside Paddy's Discotheque, then, just down the street, a powerful car bomb erupted outside the Sari Nightclub, Kuta Beach, Bali. Cooking gas canisters exploded, destroying the structure,  killing 187 and injuring more than 300 including three Americans, many Australians as well as tourists from Canada, Britain, Germany and Sweden.  A third bomb exploded outside the US Consulate causing no injuries. The Kuta Beach area is primarily an Australian and European tourist area.The attack...