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2005-10-08 Southeast Asia

Indonesia struggles to grapple with terror threat

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-10-08 00:30|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Total unmitigated 100% pure al Guardian bullshit. If the Indos wanted to curtail or contain terrorism they could do it. Hell, they're a world-renowned safe haven for terrs.

"If you look at the last three years, the pattern of arrests by the police and the way they've been able to go after the network has been pretty good," says Sidney Jones, a Jemaah Islamiyah expert with the Brussels-based International Crisis Group. "You can't say that the work hasn't been effective."

ROFL. Yewbetcha.

Posted by .com 2005-10-08 10:09|| 2005-10-08 10:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Either they go after them now or go after them later. That's the only choice.

Posted by wxjames 2005-10-08 14:47|| 2005-10-08 14:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Either they go after them now or go after them later. That's the only choice.

I believe Indonesia has found a third option, "harboring".

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-10-08 15:27|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-10-08 15:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Reducing Bashir's sentence is the only glaring commitment Indonesia has made with respect to terrorism. And it ain't a good one. Their refusal to outlaw JI solely on the basis of what its name signifies pushes them to the top of the old Christmas list too.

At some point the Western world will have to realize that any nations which are dragging their feet in combating Islamist terrorism effectively relinquish their sovereignty due to the patent threat they pose to all other countries. Sadly, it will probably take a nuclear terrorist attack (or three) before world leaders even begin to consider such an outlandish notion.

Posted by Zenster 2005-10-08 16:39|| 2005-10-08 16:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Zenster, Tony Blair admitted Kyoto not only isn't going to happen, but probably wasn't the best way to approach the problem. Other miracles can happen, too. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2005-10-08 21:34|| 2005-10-08 21:34|| Front Page Top

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