Is Jafar Umar Another Osama bin Laden?

The New York Times has asserted that Jafar Umar Thalib is every bit as dangerous as Osama bin Laden. Is this going too far?

March 19, 2002

Although Vice President Hamzah Haz stated in a speech last Thursday marking the Islamic New Year in Senayan, Jakarta, that Indonesia was free of terrorism, this country is still regarded as a nest of terrorism by the US. After the Singapore-based Straits Times published the Operation Jibril document, which contained detailed plans for a bombing operation to be mounted by the Jamaah Islamiyah Muslim group, The New York Times published an article

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