Rohan Gunaratna
Rohan Gunaratna
Rohan Gunaratnais an international terrorism expert. He is the head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Currently, he is a professor of Security studies at the ICPVTR in S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. By its size, ICPVTR is one of the largest counter-terrorism research and training centres in the world...
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We haven't even started to think about this issue. But natural disasters shape leaders.
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And you also need people to maintain the safe houses, the communication, to procure the equipment and the chemicals, and also to prepare the devices, and finally to transport the devices and the bombers to the target location.
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The terrorists' aim is to embarrass and humiliate the government of Indonesia.
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I was brought in for questioning on Friday but beyond that there is no issue at all. I want to stress that our relationship with the police is still very good.
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No other groups can carry out multiple attacks like that.
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Both the government now in power, and the previous government, have not taken this threat seriously and as a result we have seen this deep escalation in the more recent past.
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The Bali bomb was designed to cause maximum fatalities and casualties.
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They chose Bali in order to embarrass and humiliate Indonesia. Especially in light of reports that said JI has been dismantled, they're now proving that JI is still capable.
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They chose Bali in order to embarrass and humiliate Indonesia, ... Especially in light of reports that said JI has been dismantled, they're now proving that JI is still capable.
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They chose Bali again to humiliate Indonesia, who claimed to have dismantled JI. This shows they are still in business and it will encourage more to join them.
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It is very likely the attacks were meant to affect the peace process between Pakistan and India.
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Our prediction is Thailand will become like Mindanao in the next five years unless the Thai government takes decisive steps to control and contain the local insurgency.
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Bali is the worst terrorist attack since 9/11... and until Bali occurred there were many government denials that there was a significant terrorist network operating in Southeast Asia,
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Bangladesh was very much like Nepal or Thailand or like Indonesia before their respective insurgencies broke out ... because all these governments were in denial,