Letter discusses future JI attack<\/p>\n
SINGAPORE: Planning is well under way for a terrorist attack in
\nIndonesia this year that could be as devastating as the 2002 Bali
\nbombings, The Straits Times reported on Friday.<\/p>\n
A letter obtained by the newspaper from a Sumatra-based
\noperative of the Jamaah Islamiyah (JI) terror group tells of
\nmilitants being trained for suicide bombings in Jakarta.<\/p>\n
It was written to the network's top bomb-maker, identified as
\nMalaysian Azahari Husin, who has been on the run after plotting
\nthree of Indonesia's worst terrorist strikes.<\/p>\n
The al-Qaeda-linked JI has been blamed for a host of attacks
\nand plots throughout Southeast Asia, including the Bali nightclub
\nattacks that killed 202 people, a blast at Jakarta's JW Marriott
\nhotel the following year that killed 12, and a suicide car
\nbombing outside the Australian Embassy in the Indonesian capital
\nlast September that left 10 dead.<\/p>\n
A leading Indonesian security official and terrorism expert
\nbelieves the note, dated Nov. 26, 2004, and written in pidgin
\nArabic, is authentic.<\/p>\n
\"It is a credible document and corroborates some of our
\nfindings in the field that there will be another bombing,\"
\nAnsyaad Mbai, a senior Indonesian counterterrorism official, was
\nquoted as saying in Jakarta. --DPA<\/p>",
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