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...story of Abdullah Akoh provides a chilling window into just how young men are "lured away." A 31-year-old ustaz, Abdullah is being held in a military hospital, recovering from bullet wounds received when shooting dead a soldier in July. He says that as a boy he was told tales of atrocities committed by security forces against Muslims and so needed little convincing that the south should secede. Abdullah says he was recruited by a traveling preacher called Ustaz Soh. "The organization is always looking for people and has members all over, seeing who has the potential...
...perhaps because he was older and less impressionable, when he was finally ordered into action on April 28, Abdullah balked. He says he refused because it was suicidal to attack "soldiers with M-16s when we only had knives. Ustaz Soh was very angry with me, and three weeks later he came back and ordered me to attack on my own. He said the leaders had decided that attacks would now use guns and bombs, and gave me a 9-mm pistol. When I asked for a driver, he told me a boy from my own village would drive...
...track down suspected militants. "There's no question that we are doing everything in our power to catch these guys," says a top official in Kuala Lumpur. "And if we do find them, they'll be arrested and interrogated like anyone else." When Thaksin hosts Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi this week, the issue of cross-border infiltration is likely to be high on their agenda...
...talks begin. A last-minute public revolt could, theoretically, produce a veto in December; Turkish officials are most worried about France and Austria. But French President Jacques Chirac says he still backs talks and Austria, according to diplomats, is not likely to stand alone. Rejection now, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul told TIME, would seriously damage Europe's credibility and "fuel hostility toward Europe across the Islamic world." Still, the dire warnings have stoked disenchantment in Western Europe - and forced Turks to explain themselves - again. "We are not talking about being full members now," said Gul. "We are just talking...
...that could sustain it for years to come. Sunni abstinence also dims prospects for a new Iraqi government winning wider Arab support. Iraq's Arab neighbors have urged the U.S. to do more to give the Sunnis a stake in the new Iraq, and Jordan's Crown Prince Abdullah - perhaps Washington's closest ally among the Arab regimes - warned on Monday that no credible poll in Iraq is possible amid the current "chaos...