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- ↑ "Indonesians turn out to welcome freed cleric" The New Times, June 14, 2006
- 1 2 3 "Schooled for Jihad" The Washington Post June 26, 2005
- ↑ Jihad rules in Islamic school CNN February 26, 2004
- 1 2 "State of Controversy in Indonesia" Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine The Washington Diplomat October 2003
- ↑ "Profile: Abu Bakar Ba'asyir" BBC 14 June 2006
- ↑ Al-Qaeda in Southeast Asia: The case of the “NGRUKI NETWORK” in Indonesia* Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine International Crisis Group, August 8, 2002
- ↑ Mum on Bombing Suspects [ permanent dead link ] The Jakarta Globe, July 21, 2009
- 1 2 3 Transnational Terrorism Archived April 5, 2007, at the Wayback Machine Australian Department of Foreign Affairs
- 1 2 Bachelard, Michael (September 29, 2012). "Confessions of a Bali bomber". The Age.
- ↑ "Marriott blast suspects named" Archived March 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine , CNN August 19, 2003
- ↑ "How Jemaah Islamiyah operates Archived 2007-08-29 at the Wayback Machine International Crisis Group Asia Report Number 43, 11 December 2002,
- ↑ Three IS militants from RI killed in Syria Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Jakarta Post October 22, 2014,
- ↑ Nurdin Aziz or Nur Hasbi, suspected Marriot bomber Archived 2009-07-19 at the Wayback Machine The Jakarta Post July 21, 2009
- ↑ Unexploded bomb found in Marriott Hotel in Jakarta Herald Sun, July 21, 2009
