The United States' attempts to hunt down the wealth of the Al-Qaeda network has reached into all corners of the globe. And here in Indonesia it has the government of President Megawati Sukarnoputri troubled. As America bangs the war drums for its strikes against Osama bin Laden and his harborers, Afghanistan's Taleban regime, Indonesia and many other countries also have to dance. And they are doing so.

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