Howard Dean may believe " THE fight on terror" is in Afghanistan. But the reality is the fight is global, as Tony Blair recently noted. Here's another example of what Blair's talking about from Reuters:
MANILA, Sept 22 - Islamic militants from Indonesia have been training radicals in the southern Philippines in bomb-making, local officials said on Friday after the seizure of explosive devices at a guerrilla base in a remote island. On Aug. 4, soldiers found a stockpile of improvised bombs, some fashioned out of howitzer and mortar rounds, with electronic anti-tamper sensors and digital timers at a hideout of the Abu Sayyaf, the most violent of Islamic separatist groups in the Philippines…. "Some of the improvised bombs we saw in Jolo bore striking similarities to the lunchbox-type explosives found in the house where Azahari was killed," an intelligence officer told Reuters. The official was referring Azahari Husin, a Malaysian engineer who was the top bomb-maker for Jemaah Islamiah, a group fighting for a pan-Islamic state across large parts of Asia. Azahari, who was killed in 2005 in a raid on an Indonesian safehouse being used by Jemaah, allegedly designed the bombs used in the 2002 Bali bomb attacks and explosions at the Marriott hotel and Australian Embassy in Jakarta…. "These improvised bombs show a capability heretofore unseen among local terrorist groups," Defense Secretary Avelino Cruz told a forum in Manila on Thursday. "Close similarities to improvised bombs being used in the Middle East and Afghanistan have been noted."