https://www.scmp.com/rss/510038/feed Susan Sim was a journalist in Jakarta on 9/11. A former intelligence analyst, she joined the Singapore Foreign Service in 2001 and was posted to Washington DC as deputy chief of mission from 2003 to 2006. She is currently vice-president for Asia with The Soufan Group, a global strategic consultancy, and Adjunct Senior Fellow with the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Two decades after Singapore began cracking down on a pan-Southeast Asia terrorist group calling itself Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the network’s operations leader, Hambali, remains at Guantanamo Bay awaiting trial. The evidence against him shows that he took orders and money from the al-Qaeda mastermind behind 9/11 to stage terrorist attacks in the region, including the deadly Bali bombings in 2002, and was planning yet more attacks when captured in 2003. In the second of a two-part feature, Susan... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3159112/why-hambali-southeast-asias-osama-bin-laden-detained-guantanamo?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3159112/why-hambali-southeast-asias-osama-bin-laden-detained-guantanamo?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 11 Dec 2021 23:00:30 +0000 Two decades after Singapore began cracking down on a pan-Southeast Asia terrorist group calling itself Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the network’s operations leader, Hambali, remains at Guantanamo Bay awaiting trial. The evidence against him shows that he took orders and money from the al-Qaeda mastermind behind 9/11 to stage terrorist attacks in the region, including the deadly Bali bombings in 2002, and was planning yet more attacks when captured in 2003. In the first of a two-part feature, Susan Sim,... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3159109/hunting-hambali-bringing-southeast-asias-osama-bin-laden-justice?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3159109/hunting-hambali-bringing-southeast-asias-osama-bin-laden-justice?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 10 Dec 2021 23:00:10 +0000 It took 25-year-old Wardini and her two young children almost two months to travel with smugglers by road from Jordan, through Iran, to western Afghanistan. By the time they were arrested by Afghan border guards, she had burned their Indonesian passports. They were not going home, she told an Indonesian consular officer who visited her in a Kabul prison in 2019. With the end of days near, she and her children, both then under three, would live in “Khorasan, the blessed land”, she... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3136966/us-withdraws-afghanistans-lure-returns-southeast-asian?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3136966/us-withdraws-afghanistans-lure-returns-southeast-asian?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 12 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000