Hambali's plan to attack Australia misfired: Report<\/p>\n
Agencies, Sydney, Australia<\/p>\n
Hambali, Southeast Asia's most dangerous man until he was
\ncaptured in Thailand last year, wanted to attack Australia but
\nfailed to establish a local network capable of staging bombings,
\nit was reported here on Friday.<\/p>\n
The Australian newspaper said Central Intelligence Agency
\n(CIA) interrogators had put 200 questions to Hambali on behalf of
\nthe Australian Federal Police and Canberra's spy agency,
\nAustralian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO), about the
\nintentions of the Asian terror network Jamaah Islamiyah (JI) in
\nAustralia.<\/p>\n
The responses confirmed the belief of both agencies that the
\nJI cell covering Australia, known as Mantiqi 4, was the least
\ndeveloped and operationally capable of JI's four regions, the
\npaper said.<\/p>\n
Australian authorities believe they have disrupted the
\nAustralian wing that Hambali had difficulty knocking into shape.<\/p>\n
The answers given to Australian authorities revealed that
\nHambali had almost no success in establishing a local Anglo-Saxon
\nnetwork and instead relied on two Indonesian brothers.<\/p>\n
The one exception was alleged to be a local man who could not
\nbe legally named, but who has been under the sustained scrutiny
\nof authorities.<\/p>\n
One brother fled Australia in the days after the Sept. 11 2001
\nattacks in the United States and remains on the run, while
\nanother was deported from Australia because of immigration
\nirregularities.<\/p>\n
Hambali and his wife had been in hiding among the Thai Islamic
\nminority in the city of Ayuthaya, less than 100 kilometers from
\nBangkok, when they were caught by U.S. and Thai agents last
\nAugust.<\/p>\n
Hambali is now being held at the U.S. military base on the
\nIndian Ocean outpost of Diego Garcia along with two other key al-
\nQaeda operatives, its chief of operations Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
\nand the confessed organizer of the Sept. 11 2001 terrorist
\nattacks, Ramzi bin-al-Shibh, The Australian said.<\/p>\n
He is alleged to have been the al-Qaeda leader who gave the
\ngo-ahead for the Bali bombings which killed 202 people including
\n88 Australians in October, 2002.<\/p>\n
The CIA have not so far allowed direct access to Hambali
\neither by Australian agencies or by officials of his native
\nIndonesia.<\/p>",
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