Feingold: U.S. Must Focus More on Terrorist Threats in Southeast Asia

By Marcus Weisgerber / May 8, 2006 at 5:00 AM
To better prosecute the ongoing war on terrorism, the United States should focus more resources on combating groups like al Qaeda in Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia, Sen. Russell Feingold (D-WI) said today at the National Press Club in Washington. Such a shift in priorities for the war is necessary because of the potential that Muslim populations in those countries will become "radicalized," he said. "One of the major affiliates of al Qaeda, JI, Jemaah Islamiyah, is based...

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