ONE noonday on August 5 this year, an explosion turned the front section of the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta into rubble.Diners at the hotels Syailendra Restaurant, many of them expatriates, were victims of yet another terror bombing that has rocked this country over the past year. Twelve people were killed and hundreds injured in the Marriott bombing.

The severed head ofAsmar Latin signaled the possibility of a suicide bomb. Asmars accomplice, Sa