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NEWS ... ... GLOBAL NEWS ... BRITAIN RECRUITED MUSLIM $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, allegedly the planted the second bomb, Mr Wahid said: TERRORISTS, CLAIMS MP leading 9/11 hijacker, before the New York "Maybe the police...or the armed forces. n astonishing claim that M16 recruited attacks, as confirmed by Dennis Lomel, The orders to do this or that came from Muslim extremists in Britain for terror director of FBI's financial crimes unit." within our armed forces, not from the fun- training abroad has been made by British Mr Meacher's argument is that the UK __damentalist people," he said. MP and former cabinet minister Michael and US security services do not want a The program also claims a key figure Meacher in an article for the Guardian (sis- proper investigation into these links behind the formation of terrorist group ter paper of the Asian News). because it would expose how they Jemaah Islamiah was an Indonesian spy. The former environment secretary claims encouraged and helped to recruit Islamic Former terrorist Umar Abduh, who is now that Britain's "overseas" security organisa- "warriors" when it suited their purposes but a researcher and writer, told Dateline that tion, M16, set about recruiting UK _ that these same forces eventually turned on Indonesian authorities have a hand in many Muslims, directing them to support US _ the West, inflamed by what they saw as terrorist groups. efforts to overthrow communist govern- anti-Islamic occupations and pro-Israeli "There is not a single Islamic group, ments in Afghanistan and Yugoslavia. international policies. either in the movement or the political He highlights a Delhi-based research (Source: The Asian News, September 30, groups, that is not controlled by foundation that estimates anything up to 2005, http://www.theasiannews.co.uk) [Indonesian] Intelligence," he said. 200 British Muslims could have undergone Abduh also told the program his organi- training in overseas terrorist camps under STATE-SPONSORED TERRORISTS sation, the Imron Movement, was incited to the protection of the Pakistani secret ser- BEHIND INDONESIAN GROUPS a range of violent action in the 1980s when vice, the ISI, which was backing the armed ndonesian police or military officers may the Indonesian military told the group that Islamic insurrection against the Afghan have played a role in the 2002 Bali the assassination of several Muslim clerics communist regime and its Soviet backers. bombing, the country's former president, | was imminent. Mr Meacher also highlights the case of | Abdurrahman Wahid, has said in a TV pro- Another terrorism expert, George UK-born Muslim Omar Saeed Sheikh, sen- gram broadcast across Australia. Aditjondro, said a bombing in May 2005 tenced to death for the murder of US jour- In an interview with SBS's Dateline pro- _ that killed 23 people in the Christian vil- nalist Daniel Pearl in 2002. He writes that gram aired on the third anniversary of the lage of Tentena, in central Sulawesi, had Sheikh has been allowed 32 appeals against bombing that killed 202 people, Mr Wahid been organised by senior military and his sentence, the last being adjourned _ said he has grave concerns about links __ police officers. "indefinitely". He says the same Delhi between Indonesian authorities and terror- "This is a strategy of depopulating an foundation describes Sheikh as a British _ ist groups. area and when an area has been depopulat- $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, allegedly the leading 9/11 hijacker, before the New York attacks, as confirmed by Dennis Lomel, director of FBI's financial crimes unit." Mr Meacher's argument is that the UK and US security services do not want a proper investigation into these links because it would expose how they encouraged and helped to recruit Islamic "warriors" when it suited their purposes but that these same forces eventually turned on the West, inflamed by what they saw as anti-Islamic occupations and pro-Israeli international policies. (Source: The Asian News, September 30, 2005, http:/www.theasiannews.co.uk) planted the second bomb, Mr Wahid said: "Maybe the police...or the armed forces. The orders to do this or that came from within our armed forces, not from the fun- damentalist people," he said. The program also claims a key figure behind the formation of terrorist group Jemaah Islamiah was an Indonesian spy. Former terrorist Umar Abduh, who is now a researcher and writer, told Dateline that Indonesian authorities have a hand in many terrorist groups. "There is not a single Islamic group, either in the movement or the political groups, that is not controlled by [Indonesian] Intelligence," he said. Abduh also told the program his organi- sation, the Imron Movement, was incited to a range of violent action in the 1980s when the Indonesian military told the group that the assassination of several Muslim clerics was imminent. Another terrorism expert, George Aditjondro, said a bombing in May 2005 that killed 23 people in the Christian vil- lage of Tentena, in central Sulawesi, had been organised by senior military and police officers. "This is a strategy of depopulating an area and when an area has been depopulat- ed, [people] becoming refugees or becom- ing paramilitary fighters, then that is the time when they can invest their money in major resource exploitation there," he said. (Source: The Australian, October 12, 2005, http://www. theaustralian.news.com.au) STATE-SPONSORED TERRORISTS BEHIND INDONESIAN GROUPS ndonesian police or military officers may have played a role in the 2002 Bali bombing, the country's former president, Abdurrahman Wahid, has said in a TV pro- gram broadcast across Australia. In an interview with SBS's Dateline pro- gram aired on the third anniversary of the bombing that killed 202 people, Mr Wahid said he has grave concerns about links between Indonesian authorities and terror- ist groups. While he said he believes terrorists were involved in planting one of the Kuta night- club bombs, the second, which destroyed Bali's Sari Club, had been organised by authorities. Asked who he thought had agent. Mr Meacher adds: "This is all the more remarkable when this is the same Omar Sheikh who, at the behest of General Mahmood Ahmed, head of the ISI, wired LIGHT-EMITTING FINGERS Hem hands glow but fingernails release the most light, according to a recent study that found all parts of the hand emit detectable levels of light. The findings support prior research which suggested that most living things, including plants, release light. Since dis- ease and illness appear to affect the strength and pattern of the glow, the dis- covery might lead to less-invasive ways of diagnosing patients. Mitsuo Hiramatsu, a scientist at the Central Research Laboratory at Hamamatsu Photonics in Japan, who led the research, told Discovery News that the hands are not the only parts of the body that shine light by releasing photons, or tiny, energised increments of light. "Not only the hands, but also the forehead and bottoms of our feet emit photons," Hiramatsu said, adding that, in terms of hands, "the presence of photons 8 = NEXUS "Can we slot something in about close voting counts in US Federal elections?" www.nexusmagazine.com DECEMBER 2005 — JANUARY 2006