SINGAPORE (DPA): Planning is well under way for a terrorist attack in Indonesia this year that could be as devastating as the 2002 Bali bombings, The Straits Times reported on Friday.
A letter obtained by the newspaper from a Sumatran-based operative of the Jamaah Islamiyah (JI) terror group tells of militants being trained for suicide bombings in Jakarta.
It was written to the network's top bomb maker, identified as Malaysian Azahari Husin, who has been on the run after plotting three of Indonesia's worst terrorist strikes.
The al-Qaeda-linked JI has been blamed for a host of attacks and plots throughout Southeast Asia, including the Bali nightclub attacks that killed 202 people, a blast at Jakarta's J.W. Marriott hotel the following year that killed 12, and a suicide car bombing at the Australian Embassy in the Indonesian capital last September that left 10 dead.
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