Nothing Turned Up on the Jamaah Islamiyah

The radical Jamaah Islamiyah movement purportedly operates in Southeast Asia. The Indonesian authorities still have their doubts.

February 19, 2002

Their plan was a grave one: to bomb the American embassies in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. The date which had been set for the attacks—as laid out in a controversial written document—was December 4, 2001. This tumultuous news was carried last week by Singapore newspaper The Straits Times. Although the plan failed to materialize, the Jamaah Islamiyah Indonesia, the organization which is suspected of being the mastermind, has

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