AN email was addressed to members of the Abu Sayyaf group in the Philippines. Dulmatin alias Joko Pitono wrote the message at the Multiplus Internet center in Pamulang, Banten, a few minutes before being shot by the police on March 9. There was only one word in the message: execute.

Dulmatin, according to a source in the antiterrorism Detachment 88, sent the message to members of the Abu Sayyaf group as an order to attack. Reportedly, several me