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Friday, June 22, 2007

you could put a down payment on a Prius for 8 grand...

from the New York Times article online...

"There have been no major terrorist attacks in Indonesia since 2005, and Jemaah Islamiyah appears to be leaning more toward smaller-scale attacks and small localized wars like one that is now under way in Poso on the island of Sulawesi.
“There are those now within J. I. who have realized that by using violence they would not be able to achieve their objectives,” said an Indonesian intelligence official who spoke on condition of anonymity. “There is, I suppose you could call it, a split within the group.”
It is not that they oppose mass killings on principle or that their aims have changed, Ms. Jones said.
A cost-benefit analysis by the International Crisis Group issued last month indicates that large-scale attacks are more expensive and also less effective in drawing new recruits.
An attempt to bomb the Australian Embassy cost about $8,000, the report said, while the assassination of the leader of the Central Sulawesi Protestant Church cost $25."

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