In 2005 the Indonesian counter-terrorist unit BRIMOB raided a house where a Jemaah Islamiyah bomb maker was staying. He was killed in the raid. A number of IEDs were recovered to BRIMOB headquarters in East Java for technical exploitation and analysis. Last week, the devices exploded after a “short circuit” caused one to detontate and the resulting fire caused others to explode. There were other devices recovered from a 2007 raid also held in the store.

No comment needed really – the report is here.

The dead IED manufacturer , Azhari Husin, is allegedly responsible in part for the Bali bomb, the JW Marriott hotel bomb of 2003 and the Australian Embassy bomb of 2004  and now the BRIMOB bomb of 2009, 4 years after his death. Oops.

The Terror wonk, here, makes some interesting comments about recent Hezbollah threats and current capabilities.  Following the comment on the New York CT post below about Hezbollah threats, it makes the point that Hezbollah’s operations internationally seem to have been limited or contained.  It links this in part to careful monitoring of Iranian embassies activity which it cites as being an important cog in Hezbollah’s international capability.

As an aside, the blog referenced makes an assumption that Hezbollah’s last main international terrorist attack was the 1996 attack on Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia. Whilst indeed that is what the Saudi authorities assert, I remain unconvinced.  There is little evidence, and in my opinion the attack may just as easily be the responsibility of sunni militants in Saudi , who after all have mounted dozens of attacks in the meantime.