Hambali's Heir Apparent

It took U.S. interrogators three weeks to break the will of Omar al-Faruq, a senior al-Qaeda operative captured in Indonesia in 2002. Spirited away to a U.S. air base in Afghanistan, the Kuwaiti endured day after day of interrogation, including long periods of isolation and sleep deprivation. When al-Faruq finally cracked, he admitted he was Osama bin Laden's most senior operative in southeast Asia, and detailed a network of terror in the region whose scope was beyond anything previously imagined. Ominously, he told his interrogators that despite his arrest, back-up operatives were already in place to "assume responsibilities to carry out...