More caliphate dreams in Indonesia, and more mayhem plotted in service of those dreams. From [1] The Star, with thanks to Nicolei:

JAKARTA: Planning is well under way for a terrorist attack in Indonesia this year that could be as devastating as the 2002 Bali bombings, according to a document obtained by The Straits Times.

The document is a letter from a Sumatran-based operative of the Jemaah Islamiah which tells of militants being trained for suicide bombings in the capital.

It was written to the network's top bomb maker Azahari Husin, a Malaysian who has been on the run after plotting three of Indonesia's worst terrorist strikes.

A leading Indonesian security official and terrorism expert believes the note is authentic.

Dated Nov 26, 2004, the seven-page letter is written in pidgin Arabic, which is used by religious clerics in boarding schools here.

Ansyaad Mbai, a senior Indonesian counter-terrorism official who studied the letter, said: "It is a credible document and corroborates some of our findings in the field that there will be another bombing."

They chose a letter to communicate because the Internet and telephones in the region are being monitored closely, a fact acknowledged in the document itself.

The letter also names Palembang and Padang in Sumatra as hiding places for "the tools" of a future terrorist operation.

Ansyaad, who heads the counter-terrorism desk in the Co-ordinating Ministry for Politics and Security, estimated that there were up to 30 JI members involved.

"Indonesia is facing an imminent Bali-style attack from these radicals," he said. "The cells might be splintered but they are still being held together by a common jihadist ideological platform to build an Islamic Caliphate in the region."...