Sidney Jones Quotations

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.

She's high energy and incorporates a lot of good moves into this class. Someone who does not dance can do it. ... Because the lights are low, it also keeps it from being intimidating.

If they get a technocrat and a skilled professional in the job as minister of justice and attorney general, we could see some real movement that's been lacking over the last several years.

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.

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

Having a president with such a big mandate is going to be an enormous boost.

I would say theres a lot more cooperation with Abu Sayyaf than there was a few years ago.

I would say the hostility between the two organizations could be cut with a knife.

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

It could be a way of buoying up his image (to) his followers.

Laskar Jundullah has also been accused of providing arms in Poso. It's a breakdown of law and order. And I think the fact that you've got a large unaccountable militia should be of concern not only to the Indonesian government but of deep concern to governments outside as well.

I think we have to be careful not to assume that, just because Azahari and Noordin were involved, that it was a JI operation.

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

We must wait for more facts before we can make that conclusion.

The police is a very important institution for the democratization of Indonesian society. Unless the police is firmly put in front in charge of internal security, this country is going to go backwards.

The police and prosecution really want to see these charges stick,

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

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 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.

What happens in the next few weeks will be critical.

Every arrest leads to new information, to new (JI) members. It suggests the police are making headway in going after the network. This is a serious blow to their organization.

There's a lot of deep distrust with the accord in the military.

This man is not just an innocent old preacher. The man knows perfectly well JI exists. If he says it doesn't exist, he's lying through his teeth.

They've got to be at the top of the list of suspects. The question is who they would have ended up with as partners.

It's not clear whether he played any kind of operational role, but he's the glue that holds the association together.

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

If you look at the last three years, the pattern of arrests by the police and the way they've been able to go after the network has been pretty good. You can't say that the work hasn't been effective.

(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.