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Terrorist network formed in the early 1990s to establish an Islamic state encompassing southern Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, and the southern Philippines. Its operatives, who trained in camps in Afghanistan and the southern Philippines, began conducting attacks in 1999. (http://www.start.umd.edu/start/data_collections/tops/terrorist_organization_profile.asp?id=3613)
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Improvised bombs disguised as Christmas gifts delivered to churches and clergymen kill 19 people and injure scores more across Indonesia. (http://middleeast.about.com/od/terrorism/qt/me081109c.htm)
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Twenty-two people killed in a series of bombings in the Philippines blamed on Al-Qaeda-trained bomb expert Fathur Rahman al-Ghozi, alias Randy Ali. (http://articles.cnn.com/2003-09-05/world/terror.list_1_jemaah-islamiyah-s-jemaah-islamiyah-qaeda?_s=PM:asiapcf)
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Al-Ghozi gets caught and arrested in the Philippines. (http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=fathur_rohman_al-ghozi_1)
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Bombs at crowded nightspots in the resort island of Bali kill 202 people, mostly foreign tourists. (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/ji.htm)
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Al escapes in July 2003 and is killed in a shootout with police three months later. (http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=214179)
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A car bomb tears through the JW Marriott hotel in Jakarta, killing 12 people and wounding 149 others.
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Key JI leader Hambali, accused among other things of plotting to blow up US airliners, is captured in Thailand and handed over to US custody. (http://editorials.voa.gov/content/a-41-a-2003-08-19-1-1-83096787/1478169.html)
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Police arrest self-proclaimed JI leaders Zarkasi and Abu Dujana in Java. Both men are sentenced to 15 years in prison in April 2008.
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Bali bombers Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra are executed by firing squad. (http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20090717-155372.html0
