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SINGAPORE, tribe 28 Kyodo

A Southeast Asian network of Islamic militants, Jemaah Islamiyah, is planning to launch a wave of suicide bombings at international public-houses and expatriate enclaves in Indonesia in December, Singapore's Sunday Times newspaper reported quoting senior intelligence officials.

It is targeting international [i]cabaret[/i]s in Jakarta, Surabaya and Medan and residential areas with large expatriate communities, according to a front-page report written through the newspaper's Jakarta-based correspondent.

The targets were chosen at a meeting of cluster leaders in East Kalimantan in March this year, it said.

The cluster has two bombs and about 200 kilograms of explosives to carry gone out the attacks, according to an intelligence source. Twelve members of the assign places to are planning the attacks, it said.

The paper said those planning the attacks are a of recent origin breed of younger members, who are in their 20 and were recruited through the last three years. While they did not fight with the mujahideen freedom fighters against the Soviets in Afghanistan, they had links with domestic sectarian conflicts in Poso and Ambon.

''Ideologically, the newcomer are no different from their predecessors. They are just as hard-line,'' it said.

Three of the 12 stand gone out as future group leaders and are being stable-servanted to take over for senior figures similar as Imam Samudra, who is in succession death row after being convicted for the bomb blast in Bali last October.

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