Seeds of Terror

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The future of al-Qaeda's international terror can be found in Southeast Asia: in new training camps in the Phillippines, in plots being hatched in Indonesia, in money being raised in Malaysia. Every single al-Qaeda attack since 1993 has had a connection to the Phillippines; authorities there discovered the blueprint for 9/11 but failed to take it seriously. In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, CNN Jakarta bureau chief Maria Ressa reveals: * The full story of the Bali bombing and why it could have been much worse - it was a Plan B, scaled back from bigger plans for Singapore. * Why the so-called Asian Osama bin Laden, Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, is one of the most dangerous men alive (and what it was like to interview him). * How the government of the Phillippines denied the truth about al-Qaeda's establishment of new training camps on its islands, even when confronted with videos and satellite photographs. * Which plots, conceived in Southeast Asia, have been aimed at the United States, and why we should expect to hear more about nuclear facilities, cyanide, and urban strikes.