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News Analysis

Jakarta blasts show militants resilient

AP, Jakarta
Twin hotel bombings Friday appear to show the resilience of al-Qaeda-linked militants in Indonesia despite a crackdown that many assumed had left them seriously weakened.
The blasts in the heart of the capital were the first in Indonesia in four years. They came 10 days after the re-election of a US-friendly president in the world s most populous Muslim-majority nation. The vote furthered the country's reputation as a beacon of secular democracy in the Islamic world.
Suspicion has already fallen on the lemaah Islamiyah terror network and its allies especially Noordin Top, a
Malaysian engineer who claimed responsibility for the last attack in Indonesia in 2005 and threatened more in a video tape.
Jemaah Islamiyah militants have been implicated in attacks since 2000, but the group rose to prominence after the 2002 nightclub bombings in the beach resort of Bali that killed 202 people, most of them foreigners.
One of the hotels hit Friday, the J.W. Marriott Hotel, was also blown up by the group in a 2003 car bombing. The coordinated nature of the attacks two blasts in the space of several minutes is also a trademark of the network.
At its peak, Jemaah Islamiyah was believed to have a network of several hundred members across Malaysia,
Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Australia. They received military training and were motivated by a desire to establish an Islamic state in the region,
1 he most dangerous members were the more than 60 Indonesians and Malaysians who travelled to Afghanistan in the late 1980s and early 1990s to light the Soviet army or attend al -Qaeda trainingcamps.
I hey returned to the region committed to al-Qaeda style attacks on civilian Western targets. Arrested members testified in court that they were avenging Muslim deaths at the hands of American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
After Bali, militants staged an attack in Indonesia in each of the next three years: a 2003 car bombing outside the jW Marriott, a 2004 truck bombing
outside the Australian Embassy, and triple suicide bombings on Bali restaurants by attackers carrying bombs in backpacks in 2005.
Police say some of the funds and direction for the first two anacks came from al-Qaeda operatives that met lemaah Islamiyah leaders in Bangkok, theThai capital. Other funds are believed to have came from bank robberies’
They were also blamed for blasts in the Philippines and plotting attacks in Singapore.
The lull in attacks since 2005 was put down to a regional crackdown that began in earnest after the Bali attacks. The fact that the 2005 Bali attacks were smaller than the previous one and carried out on foot was taken as a sign the terrorists were being squeezed.