June has been a good month for South-East Asia's counter-terrorism efforts. Police have broken up suspected terrorist cells in the Philippines, Cambodia, Thailand, and Indonesia. In Malaysia and Thailand, they have seized deadly bomb-making materials. And in Indonesia and the Philippines, the testimony of various alleged terrorists is shedding light on the connections between the region's different terrorist groups. As encouraging as all of this might sound, however, it also shows that South-East Asia's terrorists are more widely spread and firmly entrenched than the authorities had originally imagined.
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