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Excerpt from book: “The anthrax spores in the letter to Daschle were so professionally refined, the Central Intelligence Agency believed the powder must have been sent by an experienced terrorist organization, most probably Al Qaeda, as a sequel to the group’s September 11 attacks. During a [October 17] meeting of the White House’s National Security Council that day, Cheney, who was sitting in for the President because Bush was traveling abroad, urged everyone to keep this inflammatory speculation secret. ... They thought Cheney had already been lethally infected. ... *** Cheney in particular was so stricken by the potential for...

Canadian admits to plotting attacksReport details role of St. Catharines man  Stewart Bell, National Post.   Friday, January 10, 2003 A Canadian man has confessed he was sent to Southeast Asia by al-Qaeda to organize a terrorist cell that plotted a massive assault that involved setting off simultaneous truck bombs at six Western buildings in Singapore. A 50-page report released yesterday by the government of Singapore provides the first official details of the terrorist activities of Mohammed Mansour Jabarah, a 20-year-old student from St. Catharines. It said Mr. Jabarah had admitted he was dispatched by al-Qaeda after Sept. 11 to...

August 7, 2004THE OVERVIEWBin Laden Sent Suspect to U.S., Officials Say By DOUGLAS JEHL and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM ASHINGTON, Aug. 6 - American intelligence officials now believe that Issa al-Hindi, the alleged Qaeda operative now in British custody, was dispatched to the United States in early 2001 by the mastermind of the Sept. 11 plot at the direction of Osama bin Laden to case potential targets in New York City, senior government officials said Friday. The officials said that Mr. Hindi was the same person as the figure identified in the Sept. 11 commission report as Issa al-Britani. The...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia has extended for two more years the imprisonment of a terror suspect linked to al-Qaeda's attempts to produce chemical and biological weapons, saying he has more information about terrorist operations. Yazid Sufaat, a U.S.-trained biochemist and former Malaysian army captain, was arrested in late 2001 as he returned home from Afghanistan, where officials say he was working on a biological and chemical weapons program for al-Qaeda that was ended by the U.S.-led war. Since then, he has been held without trial under Malaysia's Internal Security Act on accusations of being a member of Jemaah...

HAMBALI, the mastermind behind the 2002 Bali bombing, has been transferred to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba from a secret CIA prison and is expected to face a military trial. For more than two years since Thai authorities captured Hambali, also known as Riduan Isamuddin, and handed him over to US authorities, the Bush administration has refused to comment on his whereabouts. But President George W.Bush admitted yesterday that Hambali, Jemaah Islamiah's operational commander and senior al-Qa'ida leader, had been held in a secret CIA detention system outside the US - believed to be in eastern Europe - along with 13...

Jakarta, 13 March (AKI) - Terrorism and the Palestinian question top the agenda of the US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice's visit to Indonesia. Rice is scheduled to arrive in Jakarta on Monday evening. In the days preceeding the visit, Rice expressed Washington's appreciation for the firm way in which Jakarta has been fighting the threat of global terrorism. Rice also said that she was ready to discuss any assistance Washington can provide Jakarta in the fight against terrorism. On the occasion of Rice's visit, Jakarta is also expected to ask, yet again, for access to Riduan Isamuddin, better known...

How US stopped Hambali Natalie O'Brien and Patrick Walters February 11, 2006 IT should have been no surprise that the Southeast Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiah and its operations chief Hambali were named by US President George W. Bush as the figures behind a 2002 plot to fly a plane into California's tallest building. JI and Hambali, mastermind of the Bali bombing, were not only intimately connected with al-Qa'ida's chief strategist Khalid Sheik Mohammed in the plan to destroy the US Bank Tower in Los Angeles, they had been in cahoots for years, planning to blow up US airliners and...

ABC News is reporting that Current and former CIA officers speaking to ABC News on the condition of confidentiality say the United States scrambled to get all the suspects off European soil before Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived there today. The officers say 11 top al Qaeda suspects have now been moved to a new CIA facility in the North African desert. The disgrunted intelligence officers even disclosed an actual list of 12 high-value targets allegedly held by the CIA, and ABC is reporting it : Abu Zubaydah: Held first in Thailand then Poland Ibn Al-Shaykh al-Libi: Held in...

A KEY Jemaah Islamiah operative sent to Australia by captured terrorist leader Hambali to set up a terror cell has been questioned by Australian Federal Police investigating the activities of the Sydney and Melbourne suspects charged last week. Two AFP officers flew to Kuala Lumpur in August to question Azman Hashim, the JI military expert who ran a paramilitary weapons training camp for Australians in the Blue Mountains. Reports out of Malaysia have said that Hashim, who has been detained under Malaysia's Internal Security Act, had revealed that some Australians had trained in the camp in 2002. The AFP yesterday...

Government counterterrorism officials gave new details on Friday of what the White House said was a foiled 2002 plot to fly hijacked airplanes into targets on the West Coast, but their account suggested that the Bush administration might not have understood the dimensions of the plot until two major terror suspects were caught in 2003. Both suspects, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, had been involved in plans for such an attack, they said. President Bush referred obliquely to the planning in a speech on Thursday, when he said the United States and its partners had...

AHMED HIKMAT SHAKIR IS A shadowy figure who provided logistical assistance to one, maybe two, of the 9/11 hijackers. Years before, he had received a phone call from the Jersey City, New Jersey, safehouse of the plotters who would soon, in February 1993, park a truck bomb in the basement of the World Trade Center. The safehouse was the apartment of Musab Yasin, brother of Abdul Rahman Yasin, who scorched his own leg while mixing the chemicals for the 1993 bomb.When Shakir was arrested shortly after the 9/11 attacks, his "pocket litter," in the parlance of the investigators, included contact...

A Cambodian court has sentenced the Indonesian Islamist known as Hambali and three others to life in jail for planning bomb attacks in Phnom Penh. Hambali, already in US custody, was convicted in absentia over plans to attack the UK embassy in Cambodia. A lawyer for the other defendants, two Thais and a Cambodian, said they may launch an appeal. Hambali is regarded as a key member of Jemaah Islamiah, the Asian militant group said to have ties to al-Qaeda. The Indonesian authorities suspect him of involvement in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings, which killed 202 people. He was arrested...

Indonesian police arrest Hambali keyman JAKARTA (Indonesia) - Indonesian police have arrested a key associate of alleged South-east Asian terror mastermind Hambali on an island in the country's far north-east, Koran Tempo newspaper reported on Wednesday. Adrian Ali, alias Amin, was arrested on Tinakareng, in the north Sulawesi province, after police found equipment used to make identity papers in his house, the paper quoted local police as saying. Two other suspects were arrested with Ali. The report did not say when the arrests took place, nor what the men would be charged with. Tinakareng lies just south of the Philippine's...

Jemaah Islamiyah has tried in the last year to carry out terror attacks in Southeast Asia, but failed because of a lack of funds and support from other militant groups, and an absence of planners among its ranks, officials said. The al-Qaida-linked organization's ability to mount attacks was severely dented by the arrest of scores of militants after September 11, 2001, including Hambali, the group's alleged operations chief, a Malaysian government official told The Associated Press on Friday. Remnants of Jemaah Islamiyah have made several unsuccessful attempts to regroup in Indonesia so they could launch more strikes, the official said...

Terror mastermind Hambali had fake Spanish passport when arrested KUALA LUMPUR (AP): Southeast Asian terror mastermind Hambali had a fake Spanish passport that portrayed him as a well-groomed businessman when he was arrested last year in Thailand, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. Hambali, a high-ranking leader of al-Qaeda and the brains behind its regional ally, Jamaah Islamiyah, was Southeast Asia's most-wanted fugitive and is suspected of orchestrating the Bali bombing in 2002 and of playing a support role in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. Thai police captured him in August 2003 and turned him over to U.S. custody. His...

According to documents obtained by NEWSWEEK, Al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed told U.S. investigators after his capture last year that a high-ranking Qaeda lieutenant known as Khallad originally was "selected" to participate in the 9/11 attacks as a "bouncer"--one of the musclemen assigned to corral and subdue passengers on a hijacked plane. Khallad, a one-legged Yemeni also known as Tawfiq bin Attash, attended a January 2000 "summit" meeting in Malaysia at which he allegedly went over plans for 9/11 with two future hijackers, Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi. After the meeting, Almihdhar and Alhazmi traveled to the United States....

Police in Thailand believe a relative of Bali bombing mastermind Hambali was among the thieves who stole a large quantity of a bomb-making ingredient this week. Authorities say Islamic separatists stole a batch of ammonium nitrate, a fertiliser and bomb-making ingredient, in an armed raid on a quarry in the country's south. The 10 thieves escaped with more than 1,300 kilograms of ammonium nitrate, 58 sticks of dynamite and 170 blasting caps. Ammonium nitrate was the main explosive used in the Bali bombings. Security forces in southern Thailand are on high alert. They fear a major bomb attack is being...

<p>LONDON — Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, al Qaeda's purported operations chief, has told U.S. interrogators that the group had been planning attacks on the Library Tower in Los Angeles and the Sears Tower in Chicago on the heels of the September 11, 2001, terror strikes.</p>

IT makes a chilling picture. The mastermind behind the September 11 attacks has told interrogators that he and his terrorist nephew leafed through almanacs of US skyscrapers when planning the operation. Sears Tower in Chicago and Library Tower in Los Angeles – which was "blown up" in the film Independence Day – were both potential targets, according to transcripts of interrogations of al-Qa'ida operations chief Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. "We were looking for symbols of economic might," he told his captors. He recounted sitting looking at the books with Ramzi Yusuf, his nephew by marriage, who was the man behind the...

'I met Osama Bin Laden in Kabul. It was at this time we discussed the Heathrow operation' It makes a chilling picture. The mastermind behind the September 11 attacks has told interrogators that he and his terrorist nephew leafed through almanacs of American skyscrapers when planning the operation. Sears Tower in Chicago and Library Tower in Los Angeles — which was “blown up” in the film Independence Day — were both potential targets, according to transcripts of interrogations of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Al-Qaeda operations chief. “We were looking for symbols of economic might,” he told his captors. He recounted...

Indonesia has received 125 valuable transcripts from the United States interrogation of top terror suspect Hambali, a Foreign Ministry official says. Dino Pati Djalal, the director of the North America desk at the ministry, said: "They do contain valuable intelligence information. "The police will study this information further and make use of it as they see fit." He did not reveal the contents or say whether the transcripts might be used to open a new case against militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, whose three-year jail sentence for immigration offences and document forgery was halved by the Supreme Court this month....

America's norther neighbor continues to serve as a favorite operational base and transit country for terrorists. An American courtroom just witnessed the first conviction ever of a Canadian citizen in the War on Terror. Mohammed Mansour Jabarah, 21, originally from Kuwait, pleaded guilty to several charges of planning attacks against American interests outside the United States. The charges include conspiracy to kill US nationals, destroy US property abroad with weapons of mass destruction, kill American employees while on duty, and conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. The WMD, in this case, was dynamite. According to Canadian newspapers, Jabarah was...

Indonesia has been allowed for the first time to indirectly question the US-held regional terror suspect Hambali, the country's intelligence chief said on Wednesday. A M Hendropriyono said Indonesia had received answers to written questions from Hambali which had shed some light on his terror network in the world's most populous Muslim nation. "We have not received physical access, but we have received (answers) to a list of important questions. From those we have a picture of the size of the network and the targets for their plans," Mr Hendropriyono told reporters. He declined to give further details. Asked when...

JUST before his September 11 attacks on the US, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden sent a friendly invitation to the now imprisoned Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir. "Greetings from Osama bin Laden," the extremist leader said in the invitation, apparently forwarded to Indonesia via Jemaah Islamiah ringleader Hambali. Known as al-Qaeda's linkman in Asia, Hambali was then in Afghanistan for unclear reasons. He passed the verbal message on to Mohammad Rais - a detained Jemaah Islamiah operative who was then heading to Indonesia. "Osama bin Laden invites Ustad Abu Bakar Bashir to come to Afghanistan if the conditions for Ustad...

<p>An al-Qaida program to develop chemical and biological weapons was in the early "conceptual stages" when it was cut short by the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, U.S. and Malaysian security officials told the Associated Press.</p> <p>The information on the state of Osama bin Laden's weapons plan came from interrogations of terrorist suspects captured in Southeast Asia and from clues gathered in the Afghan battlefield, the authorities said.</p>

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - An al-Qaida program to develop chemical and biological weapons was in the early "conceptual stages" when it was cut short by the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, U.S. and Malaysian security officials told the Associated Press. The information on the state of Osama bin Laden's weapons plan came from interrogations of terrorist suspects captured in Southeast Asia and from clues gathered in the Afghan battlefield, the authorities said. The project was being developed in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Officials believe the program was being run by Yazid...

FOR three months the requests went in, polite phone calls to the woods north of Washington DC and informal inter-government chats. But with the CIA holding the whip hand, it was never going to happen in a hurry. Since August 8, the day Southeast Asia's most-wanted terrorist, Hambali, was caught, the Australian Federal Police and ASIO had been preparing a list of questions for the deadly Indonesian about his designs on Australia. With the terror tsar in the hands of a close ally, authorities were sure they would soon be adding crucial pieces to a terror blueprint that was little...

HAMBALI, Southeast Asia's most dangerous terrorist, wanted to attack Australia but had failed to establish a local network capable of staging bombings, US interrogators have learned. The CIA, acting as interrogator for the Australian Federal Police and ASIO, asked Hambali in late November more than 200 questions about terrorist group Jemaah Islamiah's intentions in Australia. The responses have reaffirmed a belief by both agencies that the JI cell covering Australia, known as Mantiqi 4, was the least developed and operationally capable of JI's four regions. The answers reveal Hambali had almost no success in establishing a local Anglo-Saxon network and...

[An extensive set of articles referred to lay out a definitive explanation on the source of the anthrax mailings.] Link to story: http://www.anthraxandalqaeda.com "Dad," he whispered. His Dad could barely hear him. "'I've been arrested, I'm being taken, I don't know where or why." Moazzam Begg was in the trunk of a car being taken away from his apartment in Islamabad. He had been picked up by Pakistan and US agents. The Britoner had come to Pakistan with his wife and children after the US strikes began in Afghanistan.  It was February 2002. Months later, he would confess to being...

Two years after the anthrax letter attacks, senior administration officials say they have fresh concerns about the nation's vulnerability to terrorist attacks with the deadly germ. The officials said their fears had intensified in part because they now recognized that anthrax spores could be more widely dispersed than previously believed. In addition, they said, terror suspects with ties to Al Qaeda have told questioners that the group has been trying to obtain anthrax for use in attacks. One indication of concern was a secret cabinet-level "tabletop" exercise conducted last month that simulated the simultaneous release of anthrax in different types...

Indonesia has arrested Rusman Gunawan, the younger brother of Jemaah Islamiah operations chief Hambali, along with three other Indonesians deported from Pakistan last week. All four are being detained on terrorist charges. It is believed Gunawan, 26, ran a JI cell in Karachi that recruited foreign Muslim students and trained them in weapons use and bomb-making in Kashmir. Gunawan is thought to have been an important transfer point for extremist funds and had crucial links with JI's Afghanistan cells. He has reportedly admitted sending $US50,000 ($67,400) to his brother Hambali, who is being held by the US in a secret...

AP: New Terror Chief Planning Attacks By STEVEN GUTKIN Associated Press Writer JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- The purported new military chief of a Southeast Asian terror group is among a handful of Indonesians in direct contact with al-Qaida and is now considered the most lethal terrorist in Asia, plotting fresh attacks in the region, officials told The Associated Press. Known as Zulkarnaen, the highest ranking Jemaah Islamiyah leader still on the loose is believed to head an elite squad that helped carry out a suicide bombing at a Jakarta hotel that killed 12 people, in addition to helping prepare bombs...

In early June 2003, a Central Intelligence Agency ("CIA") report concluded that the reason for Mohammed Atta's and Zacarias Moussaoui's inquiries into cropdusters was for the contemplated use in dispersing biological agents such as anthrax. An early September 2003 Newsweek article included a rumor by a Taliban source that at a meeting in April 2003 Bin Laden was planning an "unbelievable" biological attack, the plans for which had suffered a setback upon the arrest of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed ("KSM") the previous month in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.    Many people have argued that a US-based Al Qaeda operative is behind the earlier Fall...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- President Bush promised to return Southeast Asia's top terror suspect Hambali to Indonesia once American investigators have finished questioning him, an Indonesian government spokesman said Thursday. The White House confirmed that Bush agreed to try to make sure Hambali - an Indonesian citizen - was handed over to Indonesia. "He committed to work with them at an appropriate time, that he would work to make sure that Hambali was handed over," White House communications director Dan Bartlett told reporters in Canberra, Australia, during Bush's visit there. "He did not set a timetable for that. (Indonesian) President...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Al-Qaida-linked terrorists in Asia have quickly replaced captured leaders with a new operations chief and top bomb makers who are plotting deadly attacks on international hotels and other Western targets in the region, intelligence officials told The Associated Press.The arrest of Hambali -- Osama bin Laden's alleged point man in Asia -- and the cracking of a terror ring blamed for bombings in Bali did temporarily disrupt the loose Jemaah Islamiyah network, said a senior Indonesian intelligence adviser.But the leadership vacuum left by Hambali's Aug. 11 arrest in Thailand was filled within three weeks, said the...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Top Asian terror suspect Hambali devised several plots against American targets in the Philippines - including crashing bomb-laden speedboats into U.S. warships - but the error-filled schemes were never attempted, security officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The plots developed for the al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah terror network appeared to be more of a "wish list" than an action plan, the officials said on condition of anonymity. The targets - chosen because Americans and other foreigners frequent them - included the U.S. Embassy, a five-star hotel and a floating restaurant that he said was in Manila's...

BALI bombing mastermind Hambali has told interrogators how al-Qaida funded the attack that killed 202, including 88 Australians, a year ago today. The terrorist is being held under strict security by US intelligence agents on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. Hambali, also known as Riduan Isamuddin, also has told agents al-Qaida wanted to build a bio-weapons plant in Indonesia to produce weapons to deliver the deadly biological agent anthrax. He revealed that the Islamic network of terrorist cells known as Jemaah Islamiah had recruited American-trained scientist Yazid Sufaat to oversee the project. He has studied chemistry at California...

The Path Not Followed 1995 Deportee's Trail Could Have Led U.S. Gov't To Ayman Al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda Uranium Plot, U.S.-based Terror Finance Network, 1998 Embassy Bombing, Southeast Asia Terror Kingpin and 9/11 Plotters If the FBI had thoroughly investigated Mohammed Jamal Khalifa when they had him in custody in December 1994, they could have uncovered leads to several pending terrorist attacks - up to and including September 11. The Saudi businessman was detained by the U.S. for nearly six months before being deported to Jordan in April 1995 at the insistence of the State Department. He was allowed to leave...

AL-QA'IDA was so satisfied with the success of the Bali bombings of last October that it sent about $US100,000 ($147,000) to Southeast Asia to fund more attacks and provide for the Bali terrorists' families. The claim is contained in debriefing documents from Hambali, alias Riduan Isamuddin, Jemaah Islamiah's most influential terrorist, who was captured by the CIA in Thailand on August 11. According to Time magazine, which yesterday published a broad account of Hambali's debriefings, the terror czar has painted a picture of JI, the organisation he once led, which casts it as al-Qa'ida in all but name. Far from...

A NEW breed of homegrown 'twentysomething terrorists' is poised to strike at Indonesia's international hotels with a wave of suicide bombings in December. These new generation Jemaah Islamiah terrorists are every bit as deadly and fanatically anti-American as captured leaders Hambali and Imam Samudra, said intelligence sources. The Sunday Times understands that 12 of them, drawn from six terrorist cells in Indonesia, plan to turn the festive December season into a bloody nightmare. Sources disclosed that at a meeting of JI leaders in East Kalimantan in March, Zulkarnaen, their new chief, and Azahari Husin, JI's master bomb-maker, chose the...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Money sent by al-Qaida to support the families of suspects arrested in the Oct. 12 Bali bombings was used to finance the Aug. 5 attack on the JW Marriott hotel in Jakarta, Indonesian terror suspect Hambali has told investigators, a media report said Sunday. Hambali also reportedly said that Jemaah Islamiyah, the group blamed for the Bali bombings that killed 202 people and the attack on the Marriott, received "operational funds" from senior al-Qaida leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Indonesian police were not immediately available for comment on the report in Sunday's respected Media Indonesia daily....

Hambali and other senior members of Jemaah Islamiah have responded to the terror crackdown in Southeast Asia by moving the organisation west to south Asia, identifying Bangladesh as a refuge and setting up a sleeper cell of future leaders in Pakistan. A senior Asian intelligence officer with access to key interrogation records of Hambali's interviews conducted after his arrest in Thailand last month told The Weekend Australian the JI leader was about to relocate to Bangladesh when he was caught in the city of Ayutthaya, north of Bangkok. The officer said he believed one of JI's most wanted men, Malaysian...

<p>His capture was one of the civilized world's biggest coups in the War on Terror. The August arrest of Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, removed another al Qaeda killer from global circulation. Hambali was the terror mastermind behind Jemaah Islamiyah (JI, al Qaeda in Southeast Asia). The "brain" who planned the October 2002 mass murder in Bali, he served as both people "connector" and supply conduit for numerous attacks throughout the region.</p>

<p>SUNGAI GOLOK, Thailand (AP) -- The porous border along the Golok River shows why Thailand is a terrorist hideout, where fake documents and passports are big business and people don't question strangers.</p> <p>At Sungai Golok, a major border station, police scrutinize passports from Malaysia, Thailand and other nations, having sharpened their vigilance since last month's arrest here of Hambali, Asia's most wanted terrorist. Yet along the river, travelers can slip into the country on a boat.</p>

Sep 22, 6:07 AM EDTBrother of Alleged al-Qaida Chief Caught ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- The younger brother of Hambali, al-Qaida's suspected point man for Southeast Asia, has been arrested on immigration charges in Pakistan along with several other people, two senior Pakistani Interior Ministry officials said Monday.The man, Rusman Gunawan, was one of 17 people from Malaysia, Indonesia and Myanmar arrested Saturday in raids on three Islamic schools in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, said one official, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The official is closely involved in Pakistan's campaign against terrorists.The arrest...

APNewsAlert ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Younger brother of Hambali, al-Qaida's suspected point man for Southeast Asia, is arrested on immigration charges in Pakistan, senior Interior Ministry official says. MORE...

<p>Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, has told American interrogators that he first discussed the plot with Osama bin Laden in 1996 and that the original plan called for hijacking five commercial jets on each U.S. coast before it was modified several times, according to interrogation reports reviewed by The Associated Press.</p>

JAKARTA - Captured Jemaah Islamiah (JI) chief Hambali has provided CIA interrogators with details of Al-Qaeda plans to attack two American-managed hotels in Bangkok and commercial airliners using the international airport, said intelligence officials and diplomats. The arrest of Hambali has diminished the risk of any successful attack 'significantly', said a foreign diplomat. The attacks were apparently planned to coincide with the Asia- Pacific Economic Coo- peration summit in Bangkok next month in which 21 world leaders, including United States President George W. Bush, will attend. The two hotels targeted by the Al-Qaeda were the Bangkok Marriott and The Conrad,...

The United States has paid Thailand a bounty of 10 million dollars for its capture of Asia's most wanted man Hambali, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said yesterday. "We have received 10 million dollars. Part of the money will be distributed to officers involved in the operation, the rest will fund foundations to oversee the welfare of officers injured in the line of duty," the premier said. Thaksin said security agencies involved in the capture of Asia's top terrorist suspect will receive fair shares of the bounty. "Don't worry, the United States has specified which agencies worked with them and...

Al-Qa'ida southeast Asian mastermind, Hambali, has confirmed that fresh attacks were being planned in Bangkok with possible targets including US-owned hotels, airlines and popular night clubs, according to government sources in the region. The anticipated attacks, which may have been timed to coincide with APEC meetings due in mid-October, have already led to a sharp step-up in security at several key venues in Bangkok. A particular concern for regional governments has been information that al-Qa'ida may have been targeting airliners flying to the US from Bangkok. "It underlines the fact that it (the threat) is for real," one government source...