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KUALA LUMPUR, November 10 (IslamOnline) - The Muslim leader accused of terror links with the al-Qaeda and the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) Abu Bakar Bashir risks deportation to Malaysia, Singapore or the U.S. if he is stripped of his Indonesian nationality, sources said Sunday, November 10. Singapore and Malaysia have in the past urged Indonesia to arrest Bashir for his alleged role in terror activities on their soil. Basyir is accused by Singapore of being the spiritual leader of the JI while Malaysia has him high on the terror list allegedly for connections with the Malaysian Mujahidin Movement (KMM). The U.S....

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Scandal: A great debate has raged over why so many of the world's major countries suddenly went all weak in the knees when the U.S. went after Saddam Hussein. A new CIA report makes the reason clear, and it isn't pretty. The report by Charles Duelfer, chief weapons inspector of the Iraq Survey Group, sketches out in plain language what could be the biggest bribery scandal of the last century — one that reaches into the highest political circles. It makes for shocking reading. It shows how Saddam evaded U.N. sanctions from 1997 to 2003 by illicitly selling oil through...

Among those named as recipients of Oil-for-Food vouchers is the program's head, Benon Sevon, former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua, radical Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky, and Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri.

Small Bomb at Embassy in Paris Wounds 9 ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS - A small bomb exploded outside the Indonesian Embassy in Paris on Friday, slightly wounding nine people, France's interior minister said. The bomb was in a package at the base of a flagpole. The explosion shattered windows and damaged several cars, and police set up barriers to block access to the area. French Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin said most of the wounded were hurt by flying glass. Rescue workers led several people from the scene, which was crowded with fire trucks and ambulances. The embassy is...

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is expected to become the next president of Indonesia. With most ballots counted, the former military chief and security minister has a wide lead over President Megawati Sukarnoputri. Both candidates say they will not comment on the election until final results are announced October fifth. The new president is to be sworn-in October twentieth. The election was Monday. The next day, a measure of leading Indonesian stocks closed at an all-time high in reaction to the apparent victory. Traders say the market rose in hopes of aggressive economic measures by Mister Yudhoyono. The Indonesian economy has suffered...

The largest Muslim nation in the world is eager to join the U.S. in its battle against Islamic terrorists, but we don't want its help. That seems to be the situation with Indonesia – with its 178 million Muslims of a total population of 203 million. President Megawati Sukarnoputri is asking for help. She's asking an old U.S. arms embargo to be lifted. She's asking for assistance in combating Islamist terror in her own country. She's offering cooperation to the U.S. government and seeking a partnership.

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Al Qaeda is responsible for a series of deadly church bombings in Indonesia and plotted the assassination of President Megawati Sukarnoputri, according to the confession of a top agent from the terrorist network caught here. Omar Faruq, a Kuwaiti who described himself as Al Qaeda's senior representative in Southeast Asia, said the group hoped to trigger a religious civil war in Indonesia that would lead to the formation of a ''pure Islamic state,'' according to a confidential US document obtained yesterday by the Los Angeles Times.

INDONESIAN police yesterday began questioning militant Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir over a series of church bombings and an alleged plot to kill President Megawati Sukarnoputri. A police official in charge of the investigation said Bashir, the alleged leader of the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) network that has been blamed for the Bali bombing, was being questioned at a police hospital in Jakarta where he was taken on Monday. Irfan Awwas, one of Bashir's aides, quoted the 64-year-old cleric as saying: "I am ready for questioning – they can even take me to court now." Police investigation chief Jeldy Ramadhan said...

Asia Times Online, 6306 The Center,  Queen’s Road,  Central, Hong Kong Southeast Asia  Indonesia: The enemy within http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/DJ15Ae02.html By Bill Guerin JAKARTA - For Indonesia the pretense is well and truly over.  President Megawati Sukarnoputri, reading out a prepared seven-point official statement more than 13 hours after the carnage in Bali occurred, said the government expressed its condolences to the relatives of victims in the brutal and inhumane violence, which was against the existing laws, religious teachings and moral values adopted by the Indonesian nation.  In the so-called Island of the Gods where 95 percent of the 3 million population are...