UP until last Monday, Abu Bakar Ba'asyir had been held for 14 days at the VIP ward of the police-owned Soekanto Hospital, at Kramat Jati in East Jakarta. The white-bearded 64-year-old Ustad (teacher) was still visibly pale and weak, although he looked better than when police forcefully removed him from his hospital bed in Solo last 28 October. At the Kramat Jati hospital, he is closely guarded. The police have even occupied the two adjoining