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Excerpt from report in English by Roel Pareno carried by Philippine newspaper The Philippine Star website on 7 October The wife of a top Indonesian terrorist claimed that the Philippines is a "prime target" for attacks by the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terrorist group because the country was one of the first to support the US-led war against terror after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US, military officials said yesterday. The revelation by Istiada Oemar Sovie, alias Amenah Toha, the wife of suspected Jemaah Islamiyah Dulmatin, who uses only one name, came during her tactical interrogation. Sovie was captured...

ISLAMABAD, April 7: The undisclosed details of the recent country- wide crackdown on Al Qaeda men show that the success of the entire operation, 'la Hollywood thriller,' lay in the fact that all the 13 'lightening' raids were executed simultaneously in Faisalabad, Lahore and Karachi at 2.00am with all suspects caught off guard. The entire operation to hunt down Al Qaeda suspects was based on the intelligence gathered by the US agencies and had Punjab Elite Force, comprising police commandos, acting the part of FBI Swat teams. Senior intelligence sources in charge of the 13 raids told Dawn on Saturday...