Sidney Jones Quotations

Our information is that he (Rusdan) was more militant and the hardliners of JI had turned to him for leadership,

The real question is whether they will be able to get the two key masterminds that everyone suspects are involved in this one because they have also been involved in the last two big bombings. They have not been able to get those people for the last three years. But I think this may be a turning point, we'll have to see.

There are people who have suffered unbelievable trauma. There are people who have seen their own relatives being killed. There are people who have survived horrendous attacks.

I think it's going to be a stronger case this time around.

There are other people who see the Indonesian president simply as an Indonesian and therefore representative of the country that wreaked such havoc here.

(But) to allow these men to return to society as if one of the worst massacres of the 20th century never took place -- that's unthinkable.

If abuses take place as preparations for the Games proceed, it won't be just the Chinese authorities who will look bad -- the IOC and the corporate sponsors will be complicit.

The fact that the suspects were arrested in Jakarta and not some safe place in a remote village indicates they were planning something big.

The IOC didn't even try to get guarantees on human rights,

If it is true that he has given a new name to the group - that would suggest that the split has been formalized.