NYTimes -- Radical Islamists a Threat to Southeast Asia Even if Al Qaeda Is Eliminated, Singapore Says

With their radical agenda and their enhanced skills acquired from Al Qaeda, these groups, if left unchecked, will pose a grave threat to the security of Southeast Asia for a long time to come," the government said in a 50-page report on the threat of terrorism in the region.

In one of the most revealing sections of its report, the Singapore government said many of the men recruited into Jemaah Islamiyah, which is headed by an Indonesian cleric and which the authorities say was behind the attack in Bali, were not impoverished or uneducated, but smart and well employed.

The wrong policies are being pursued to eliminate terrorism.