And for an hour, with the smoke from the crash visible, diplomats and bureaucrats stood transfixed at television screens, wondering if terrorism was at work again and who, or, what, might be next.
Mr. Edwards, for example, urged creation of a domestic intelligence agency with the specific directive to work against terrorism at home, making up for what he asserted were the now-demonstrated weaknesses of the F.B.I. and C.I.A.
Two other things seem to be at work here, and neither involves terrorism.
He sees that doctrine still at work in President Bush's approach to fighting terrorism.
Mr. Suleiman also frequently assured American officials that the Mubarak government was working to keep terrorism at bay. "Egypt is circled by radicalism," he told Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, during a 2009 visit to Cairo.
Indonesia's army and its domestic-intelligence agency, BIN, are not much good at anti-terrorism work, says Mr Inkster, so until the new police units were formed, foreign agencies had no competent Indonesian counterparts.Despite Detachment 88's successes, Ms Jones says the unit is too small.
