July 1, 2005

ACCORDING TO AN INVITATION FROM CROWN PRINCE ABDULLAH IBN ABDUL AZIZ: THE ORGANIZATION OF ISLAMIC CONFERENCE RECEIVES APPROVALS FROM ITS MEMBER STATES TO TAKE PART IN THE EXTRAORDINARY ISLAMIC SUMMIT TO BE HELD IN MAKKAH AL MUKKARAMAH NEXT DECEMBER. THE OIC REFUSES THE DECISION OF HE PENTAGON TO CLOSE THE FILE OF THE DESECRATION OF THE HOLY QURAN. THE JORDANIAN EMBASSY CALLS ON ISRAEL TO STOP ITS AGGRESSIONS AGAINST AL-AQSA MOSQUE. ABOU FARAJ AL-LIBBI PROVIDES THE US WITH IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT AL QAEDA'S LEADERSHIP. According to an invitation by Crown Prince Abdullah Ibn Abdul Aziz, Deputy Prime Minister and Commander of the National Guard the Organization of the Islamic Conference has received the approval of members countries for convening an extraordinary summit in Makkah Al Mukkaramah next December. The Ministerial meeting will be held in Sanaa after two weeks. The Official Spokesman of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Ambassador Atta El-Manan Bakhit, has stated that the confession by the southern command of the United States army on the occurrence of cases of desecration of the Holy Qur'an in Guantanamo prison was a confirmation of the practices that had been reported in the papers and strongly condemned by the Organization of the Islamic Conference. He said that this disgraceful conduct of those soldiers reveal their blatant hatred and disdain for the religion of millions of Muslims all over the world and throws into doubt the nature of the instructions given to the American soldiers on religious values and principles of tolerance. He added that these unequivocally rejected practices could only lead to an incitement of religious feelings and a deepening of the gulf of difference and intolerance between the Muslim world and the United States of America. The OIC Spokesman urged the United States Government to live up to its responsibilities and not be lenient with the perpetrators of the desecration. He also demanded that those responsible for this despicable crime should be brought to justice immediately and that urgent measures should be taken to calm the tension in the Muslim world and ensure that such detestable acts are not repeated in the future. Meantime an alleged desecration of Islam's holy book of Quran in an Israeli jail sparked Palestinian anger Wednesday, reminiscent of a recent wave of protest against a reported similar act by US soldiers. Palestinian prisoners in Megiddo jail said Wednesday they will begin a one-day hunger strike in protest after Israeli prison guards tore copies of Quran during a Tuesday's cell inspection. Palestinian Minister of Prisoners' Affairs Sufian Abu Zayda said prisoners in other jails have also vowed to take steps to protest the act. The desecration also drew strong condemnation from Palestinian militants groups. Terming the act as "dangerous", Islamic Jihad leader Nafez Azzam said "what happened in the Megiddo prison reminds us of what the US soldiers did at the Guantanamo detention." Azzam called on Arab and Islamic countries to response to the Quran desecration. Hamas, another Islamic group, threatened to punish Israel. "Those who are disregarding and mocking our religion won't pass unpunished," Hamas said in a statement. The US magazine Newsweek reported in May that Quran desecration happened in the US navy base in Guantanamo, Cuba. The report triggered demonstration in Muslim world. Newsweek was forced to retract the report later. The militant Islamic Jihad presented pictures of torn copies of the Islamic holy book, the Quran, claimed they were taken inside an Israeli prison and said soldiers were responsible for the desecration. Israel denied the charge and said the pictures were a fabrication. The Islamic Jihad transmitted the pictures by e-mail to a reporter in the West Bank. They show two Qurans with torn pages. The militants said prisoners took the pictures with cellular telephones sent them electronically to militant leaders. The militants said that soldiers desecrated six or seven Qurans as they searched Palestinian prisoners' cells at the Megiddo jail in northern Israel. The prisoners were outside the cells at the time but could see what was going on, the Islamic Jihad militants said. The charges against Israeli soldiers originally surfaced, when prisoners charged that soldiers tore three Qurans and stepped on them. In a later version, they said soldiers ripped pages out of one Quran. The Israel prison authorities have said that an investigation into the matter by the Megiddo prison warden and the Israel prison service commander has shown that the claims were 'false'. "The prisoners (in Meggido) presented the book that was damaged and a check shows that the pages in question do not belong at all from the Quran and are much larger than its pages", a statement by the prison authorities said. Prisoners told the web news portal Ynetnews that the 'event' took place when some 260 guards swamped the prison's tents and cells after a morning count yesterday and searched their belongings thoroughly. Tension ran high in the prison and the authorities promised the inmates a swift and impartial investigation by a committee. Later, the prisoners went on a hunger strike demanding a fair investigation. Israeli Arab member of parliament Ahmed Tibi, who represents an Israeli Arab political party, said he received complaints from prisoners at the Megiddo prison that soldiers tore and stepped on three copies of the Quran - the Islamic holy book - while searching Palestinians and their possessions on Tuesday morning. "This is vulgar, primitive behaviour that cannot be allowed to happen," he said, calling for a special session of parliament to discuss the affair. Tibi said he called Public Security Minister Gideon Ezra to complain. In Amman Jordan Monday denounced entry of Jewish extremists to Al Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem describing it as provocative act that could stir up confrontation and evoke outrage of Muslims around the world. "Upon hearing the news about this event, the Foreign Ministry immediately instructed Jordan's ambassador to Tel Aviv to go and meet Israeli Foreign Ministry officials immediately and ask them to prevent any further consequences or recurrence of this event and to put an end to (Jewish) extremists provocative attempts that harm the sanctity of Al Haram Al Sharif," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Rajab Suqeiri said. "The Foreign Ministry is closely following developments of this event and is doing its utmost to prevent recurrence of similar event that endanger safety of the mosque and Moslem worshippers," Suqeiri told Petra. Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Abdel Salam Al Abbadi strongly denounced the act by Jewish extremists who were accompanied a group of Israeli police. "These practices form an unacceptable and flagrant challenge," he said in a statement to Petra. " They are part of repeated attempts by Zionist settlers to break into and sabotage Al Aqsa Mosque in implementation of their vicious and criminal plans," Abbadi said. He added his ministry has instructed its cadres, about 500 employees at Al Aqsa, to remain alert and to take the highest degree of vigilance to thwart the Jewish extremists' challenges and prevent them from carrying on with their plans. The Jordanian government urges all Arab and Islamic countries and organizations as well as friendly countries and world commuinty to interfere and put an end to attacks against Al Aqsa, the third holiest shrine to Moslems, Abbadi said. On the other hand Fifteen Guantanamo prisoners whom the Pentagon has pledged to free after clearing them of being "enemy combatants," remain jailed because the United States has been unable so far to arrange for them to return to their home countries, U.S. officials said. The Pentagon said more than two months ago it would free the men, but concern about the treatment they may face from their home governments appears to be a factor in the delay. "The United States has made it clear that it does not expel, return or extradite individuals to other countries where it believes that it is more likely than not that they will be tortured or subject to persecution. This is U.S. policy as well as U.S. law," said Navy Lt. Cmdr. Flex Plexico, a Pentagon spokesman. The Pentagon declined to provide the nationalities or names of the 15 men, and Plexico did not mention a specific country that prompted concern. Some previously released detainees have stated they were abused by American jailers at the prison for foreign terrorism suspects at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Plexico said "U.S. policy condemns and prohibits torture" and the United States "operates a safe, humane and professional detention operation at Guantanamo." In the meantime, the 15 men have been segregated from the general inmate population and placed in a lower-security area that "allows them a communal style of living with shared living and dining areas, and unlimited recreation time," said Air Force Maj. Michael Shavers, another Pentagon spokesman. The men were slated for release after the Pentagon reviewed whether all Guantanamo prisoners had been properly classified as "enemy combatants," a status that denied them rights given to prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. The Pentagon said on March 29 the review process determined that 38 detainees were not enemy combatants and would be freed. The Pentagon said on April 19 it had released 17 prisoners to Afghanistan and another one to Turkey after earlier sending five others home. That left the 15 still at Guantanamo. The State Department is working with the home countries to facilitate their return, Shavers said. "The bottom line is that DoD (Department of Defense) has no desire to hold detainees longer than necessary," he added. The United States now holds about 520 detainees from more than 40 countries at the Guantanamo prison camp, which it opened in January 2002. Many have been held for more than three years. Only four have been charged. The Pentagon has defined an enemy combatant as a person "who was part of or supporting Taliban or al Qaeda forces, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners. This includes any person who has committed a belligerent act or has directly supported hostilities in aid of enemy armed forces." About 234 prisoners previously have been released from Guantanamo, most as a result of diplomatic talks separate from the status-review panels. The Pentagon rejected a call to close the Guantanamo prison for foreign terrorism suspects and declined to express regret over five cases of U.S. jailers "mishandling" the Quran there. Bryan Whitman, a senior Pentagon spokesman, said the United States was not considering shutting the Guantanamo jail, as suggested by a senior Senate Democrat. The Pentagon opened the prison in January 2002. It holds about 520 non-U.S. citizens, most caught in Afghanistan. Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden, top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called Guantanamo and other U.S. detention facilities "the greatest propaganda tool that exists for recruiting of terrorists around the world." "I think we should end up shutting it (Guantanamo) down, moving those prisoners. Those that we have reason to keep, keep. And those we don't, let go," Biden said. But Whitman said, "Guantanamo serves a vital purpose in many ways." He said some prisoners are "very, very, very dangerous people." "They want to do harm not only to Americans but to U.S. interests overseas, to our friends and allies. And these are people that if released would certainly be found back on the battlefield in the war on terror," Whitman said. Pressed by a reporter, Whitman declined to express regret over the five incidents of what the Southern Command inquiry labeled "mishandling" the Quran, although he added, "Any time that our personnel do something that either violates our policy or procedures is unfortunate." The recent inquiry showed that the vast majority of U.S. personnel "understood the procedures for handling not only the Quran but other religious items, and have a great appreciation for the cultural as well as the religious aspects," he added. On the other hand the head of Amnesty International hit back at US outrage over the group labeling Guantanamo Bay a "gulag" and challenged Washington to open the military detention center to outside inspections. US President George W. Bush and other government figures have said they were shocked when the human rights group accused the United States of running "a new gulag of prisons around the world beyond the reach of the law and decency". The secretary general of London-based Amnesty International, Irene Khan, yesterday defended the comment and said the US response lacked substance and was "defensive and dismissive". "We have not seen from them a more detailed response to the concerns we have expressed in our report," she told a news conference on a visit to Tokyo. "Our answer is simple: if that is so (that the allegations are unfounded), open up these detention centers. Allow us and others to visit them. "What is interesting is that we are actually getting response from the US government" for the first time in more than three years, Khan said. "We welcome an opportunity to sit down and have a debate with them on the issue." Because the US military base in Guantanamo Bay for prisoners from the "war on terror" is located in Cuba, the Bush administration argues its inmates do not enjoy the same legal protections as those held inside the United States. "We are concerned about allegations of torture that frequently emerge and are not independently and fully investigated," Khan said. She said the human rights watchdog had used the gulag reference in its annual report to "send a strong message", not to set off debate in itself about the analogy to the infamous Soviet prison camps. "Our concern is about the detention of individuals outside of the limit of laws," she said. The United States should take a number of steps at the Guantanamo Bay and other detention centers, she said: "End all secret and incommunicado detentions; grant the International Red Cross fully access; ensure recourse to the law for all detainees; bring to justice anyone responsible for authorizing or committing human rights violations." The Amnesty report came after allegations that interrogators at Guantanamo had desecrated the Holy Qur'an to pressure prisoners. Newsweek magazine retracted the report after it set off deadly riots in Afghanistan and stirred outrage in the Muslim world, saying its source had backed away from the allegation. Khan said the report was compiled mostly by American staff. US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld also called the gulag reference "reprehensible". "No force in the world has done more to liberate people that they have never met than the men and women of the United States military," Rumsfeld said. Senior al-Qaida suspect Abu Farraj Al-Libbi, who is accused of masterminding two assassination attempts against Pakistan's leader, has been flown out of the country to the United States, the U.S. military confirmed. Pakistan said that al-Libbi, who was captured after a shootout with Pakistani agents in the country's northwest on May 2, had recently been handed over to U.S. officials, but gave no details of his destination. Officials have accused Al-Libbi, who is Libyan, of masterminding two bombings that narrowly missed Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in December 2003 and a suicide attack aimed at Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz in July 2004. In an interview with United Arab Emirates newspaper al-Ittihad newspaper published Monday, Musharraf said al-Libbi had been handed over to the United States, saying "we don't want people like him in our country.'' A Pakistani security official said al-Libbi would be taken to a U.S. detention facility where other al-Qaida suspects are being held so that American interrogators can "verify very quickly'' information he has told Pakistani authorities. "Pakistan took the decision to deport Abu-Faraj al-Libbi after receiving a request from the United States,'' said the official, requesting anonymity as he is not authorised to speak to journalists. He declined to say whether al-Libbi would be taken to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where many other suspected al-Qaida members are detained. "Both Pakistan and the United States have a strong interest in al-Libbi's prosecution as well as in information that he may be able to provide about al-Qaeda. At the time of his arrest, a senior Pakistani intelligence officer told The Associated Press that al-Libbi had been in frequent contact with bin Laden in recent months and that Pakistani interrogators were grilling him on the terrorist chief's whereabouts. Musharraf said last week that al-Libbi was cooperating but had not provided any useful information on the whereabouts of bin Laden, who is assumed to still be hiding in the rugged mountains along the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan. President Bush credited the Patriot Act with helping to convict more than 200 terrorists and dismissed accusations that the law has violated civil liberties. Bush described scary scenarios that he said were thwarted by law enforcement and intelligence officers working together with powers granted by the law he signed six weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Bush used the examples to pressure Congress to make permanent the provisions of the law that would otherwise expire at the end of the year. But he faces oppositions from civil libertarians who tell their own stories of law-abiding citizens dogged by secret probing of their private affairs. The Patriot Act bolstered FBI surveillance and law-enforcement powers in terror cases and increased use of material witness warrants to hold suspects incommunicado for months. Bush urged lawmakers to disregard what he called "unfair criticisms of this important good law." He said the Patriot Act has been used to bring charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half have been convicted. He also said it has been used to break up terrorist cells in New York, Oregon, Virginia and Florida. "For the state of our national security, Congress must not rebuild a wall between law enforcement and intelligence," he said to an audience that included roughly 100 uniformed state troopers at the Ohio Patrol Training Academy. The Pentagon is discussing war-strategy changes for defeating Islamic terrorists that would place more emphasis on killing, capturing or discouraging midlevel operators who enable top al Qaeda leadership to function. Interviews the past week with Bush administration officials show that policy-makers are thinking the only way to ultimately win the war is to take down the lower-level operators who form the networks that support Osama bin Laden and scores of other al Qaeda lieutenants around the world. President Bush, in assessing progress in the war, often cites the statistic that 75 percent of known al Qaeda leaders have been killed or captured. The strategy has been generally that if you cut off the head of al Qaeda, the body will eventually die. But more than three years into the war on terrorism, some officials are leaning toward a new policy that would place just as much emphasis on taking foot soldiers off the street. "DOD is pushing a strategy of going after the al Qaeda network," a well-placed administration official told The Washington Times. "Getting the leadership alone is not going to do it." The source said Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is "putting pressure on the system" to come up with new ideas, but has not endorsed a new plan. One official, who asked not to be named, said the recent arrests of two American al Qaeda planners are examples of how the United States can methodically disable terrorist cells, leaving chieftains with few to carry out their orders. Another change being discussed in an ongoing interagency review by the Pentagon, State Department, CIA and White House National Security Council is a strategy that emphasizes this is a war that targets Islamic extremism, not Islam itself. "We have to convince Muslims that al Qaeda is their mutual enemy," said the administration official. There is a belief by some officials that the phrase "war on terror" is not specific enough, said a second official. And a third topic is finding new ways to discourage Muslim clerics from preaching hate and encouraging violence. The Washington Post first reported last week that the Bush team is re-evaluating its anti-terror strategy. The Times subsequently conducted interviews to learn details of some of the ideas. Officials told The Times there is some frustration at the review's slow pace. One called it a "complicated process" and blamed the National Security Council staff at the White House for delays in pushing all sides to agree. "The Pentagon has been trying to overcome a lot of resistance," said the second Bush official. "Anytime they make their case, they get resistance." That official said the Pentagon wants the intelligence community to put more emphasis on signal intercepts to identify al Qaeda foot soldiers. The United States is essentially fighting a three-front war: Iraq, Afghanistan and the global theatre. U.S. Special Operations Command, based in Tampa, Fla., was designated by Mr. Rumsfeld in 2003 as the combatant command in charge of global counter terror operations. Socom has set up a relatively new structure, the Center for Special Operations, to do the battle planning. Two defense sources said Socom has struggled to set up the battle-planning staff and coordinate with regional commands. "Trust me," said one of the sources. "Changing from supporting to supported and getting cooperation from the regional commands have been difficult, at best." "Supported" refers to a command, such as U.S. Central Command, that plans and carries out its own missions. Until 2003, Socom was a "supporting" command, meaning it carried out missions dictated by others. Said Col. Samuel T. Taylor, a command spokesman, "I disagree with anyone's assertion that Socom is struggling. A major transition, such as the one we are undergoing, requires extensive planning and coordination. ... We are moving forward in the right way, at an appropriately rapid pace." On the other hand Israel's society is currently in a state of shock. The country has recently witnessed a series of murders, teens killing teens, and more cases of gruesome acts of crime. The mounting crime wave and sense of insecurity in Israel has prompted calls requiring a tougher police response. In the last few years, the level of violence in the Jewish state seems to have skyrocketed, reaching unprecedented peaks lately. Israelis sense that crime has come closer to their personal lives; to their backyards and can touch anyone, at anytime. Israeli police have approximately 20,000 officers, with a yearly budget of nearly NIS 6 billion (nearly US$4 biilion), but an estimated 80 percent of it goes towards salaries and pensions. In view of the recent criminal upsurge, the Israelis are grasping themselves, day and night, with thorny questions on how this situation evolved and on what can be done to prevent future cases. A 15-year-old teen, who dreamt of becoming a model, was strangled to death on the way to a local mall in her hometown of Rehovot, south of Tel Aviv - by a 16-year-old boy for no apparent reason. The suspect had a long criminal history but was not imprisoned. A few days later, the badly mutilated body of a 20-year-old woman who disappeared was found in a business district in the southern port city of Ashdod, marking the tenth murder in Israel in a period of two weeks. The recent murders have stirred an already furious debate regarding the leniency of Israel's justice system and the failure to address growing crime and violence. As the Israeli cabinet meets to discuss the wave of murders and other violent crimes in Israel. In light of the tense atmosphere in Israel, the police will also ask the education and social welfare ministries to initiate projects to prevent crime recidivism. On the other hand according to a report by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine, the FBI's ``widespread and longstanding deficiencies'' contributed to the U.S.'s failure to stop the Sept. 11 terror plot. The report, released in Washington after months of legal wrangling, says the Federal Bureau of Investigation missed at least five chances to learn that Nawaf al Hazmi and Khalid al Mihdhar, two men suspected by the Central Intelligence Agency since 2000 of ties to al-Qaeda, were living in the U.S. Both men were among the hijackers who seized four commercial jetliners on Sept. 11, 2001, in an attack that killed almost 3,000 people. Fine's report found ``significant systemic problems with information sharing between the CIA and the FBI'' as well as problems inside the FBI. The FBI lacked adequate oversight of employees assigned to work with the CIA and didn't give priority to counterterrorism investigations, the report says. It also questioned the FBI's handling of two other potential clues to the Sept. 11 plot: a July 2001 e-mail from an agent in Phoenix, Arizona, theorizing that Osama bin Laden was sending students to attend civil aviation schools in the U.S., and the August 2001 arrest of one of those students, Zacarias Moussaoui. That so-called Phoenix memo written by Special Agent Kenneth Williams ``warranted strategic analysis from the FBI, which it did not receive, and timely distribution, which it did not receive,'' the report says. Details on the Moussaoui case are blacked out in the version of the report released to the public because of his continuing criminal case in Virginia. Moussaoui pleaded guilty in April to conspiring in international terrorism, and prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema, presiding over the Moussaoui case, denied Fine's request to release his full 371- page unclassified report, which is an abbreviated version of a ``top secret'' report submitted last July to the FBI, CIA, Congress and the commission that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks. Congress and FBI Director Robert Mueller asked the inspector general to evaluate how the FBI handled intelligence information prior to the Sept. 11 attacks. Similar inquiries were done by a joint House-Senate committee and by the federal 9/11 commission, which reached similar conclusions. Fine's report made 16 recommendations to improve the FBI, including better training and management of intelligence analysts, integrating FBI attorneys into counterterrorism probes and creating clear procedures on how to document intelligence information received in informal briefings with other agencies. In a statement, the FBI said it generally agreed with the inspector general's findings and is already implementing most of them. In Tampa, Florida the trial of a former professor of Palestinian origin has begun in the United States on charges that he helped finance bombers in the Middle East. Sami al-Arian and three co-defendants of Palestinian descent were arrested in February 2003 on charges of raising money and providing support for the Islamic Jihad resistance group. The US lists the group as a "terrorist organisation" responsible for the deaths of over 100 people in Israel, including two Americans. "The evidence will show the Palestinian Islamic Jihad is one of the most deadly terrorist organisations on earth, dedicated to the elimination of Israel," Assistant US Attorney Walter Furr said in his opening statement in one of the highest-profile terrorism prosecutions in the US since the 11 September 2001 attacks. The prosecutor added that al-Arian, 47, a computer science professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa until his arrest, was one of the Islamic Jihad's top leaders. "For a time, he was maybe the most powerful man in the world in this organisation," Furr said. The defendants have denied the charges and said they were being prosecuted because of their political support for Palestinians. Al-Arian's attorney William Moffitt told jurors there was no evidence linking the defendants to attacks in Israel, and said al-Arian had simply been using his freedom of speech rights in support of the Palestinian cause. The four defendants face life in prison if convicted of the charges, which include conspiracy to commit murder, extortion, money laundering and providing support for foreign "terrorist organisations". The trial is expected to last at least six months and the prosecution has called hundreds of witnesses, many from Israel. In Jakarta One of South East Asia's most wanted Islamic militants used Australian dollars to fund the deadly bombing of Canberra's embassy in the Indonesian capital last year, a witness told a court. Ahmad Hassan, a witness in the trial of one of the key suspects and himself a defendant, said Malaysian fugitive Noordin M Top had given him $A9,700 for the bombing. "On the operational funds for the Australian embassy bombing, the funds were given by Khalid, alias Noordin M Top. Khalid ordered me in Surabaya to change $A9,700 to rupiah and we got 63 million rupiah," Hassan, also known as Purnomo, said in testimony. It was not clear where the money came from or why it was in Australian dollars. Hassan said another Malaysian, Azahari bin Husin, accused by police of masterminding the blast that killed 10 people on September 9, ordered him and the defendant on trial, identified as Rois, to scout out the embassy site and drive the explosives-laden van into Jakarta. Azahari also gave them explosives to blow themselves up if they were caught, Hassan said. "The Australian embassy always helps Indonesia too much against terrorists and to capture the holy fighters," he said. Azahari and Top are still at large. They are accused of being important members of Jemaah Islamiah, a South East Asian group seen as al-Qaeda's regional arm. The one-tonne bomb detonated just before the driver reached the embassy gate. It ripped open the blast-proof fence of the embassy and badly damaged many buildings in the area. Hassan said that those who died - all of whom were Indonesians - did so because of "Allah's will". The dead were either passers-by, people queuing up to enter the heavily fortified mission or security guards. "When we talked about the bombing afterwards, we never felt any remorse," Hassan told the South Jakarta District Court. Police have arrested six suspects in the attack, which was blamed on Jemaah Islamiah, the regional terror group officials say received funding from al-Qaeda. Three are already facing trial. Jemaah Islamiah is also blamed in the August 5, 2003, Marriott hotel bombing that killed 12 and the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, most of them foreign tourists. Indonesian police said they believed Azahari was hiding on the outskirts of Jakarta.