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...After 14 years in the country, Carolyn Bushell was Malaysian enough to turn for help to the spirits when her world started to fall apart. She first arrived in 1987 after marrying a fellow student from the University of Minnesota, Duluth, Malaysian Raslan Ahmad. The couple had three children and her husband prospered, rising to become general manager of the prestigious private hospital in Ipoh, an old mining town in central Malaysia where the family settled. But by late 1999, she and Raslan communicated mostly by shouting and Carolyn had formed a friendship with an ethnic Indian man named Michael...
...masterminds. Even though Attorney General John Ashcroft said the attack was "inspired, supported and supervised" by Iran, none of the 14 people indicted were Iranian. The indictment does allege that an Iranian military officer directed the Saudis' pre-bombing surveillance activities, and U.S. officials tell TIME it was Ahmad Sharif, a general in Iran's Revolutionary Guard. So why not charge him? Government sources say they don't have enough evidence. "Saying he did it and proving it in a court of law are two different things," says an official. Perhaps more important, the Bush Administration, like its predecessor...
...figurehead in Janjalani's younger brother, Khadaffy. But the real chief is Abu Sabaya, a former media communications student who worked in Saudi Arabia before gravitating to the Afghan training camps. A cleric familiar with the group's history says that Abu Sabaya, whose real name is Ahmad Salayudi, was banished from the Afghan camp for troublemaking...
...Prime Minister's high-stakes political strategy is fraught with danger. If figures like Daim and Khalil are in trouble, other politicians in Kuala Lumpur can't help but feel nervous. That's surely the case with Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Three previous Deputy Prime Ministers have fallen by the wayside, including his imprisoned predecessor Anwar Ibrahim. And now, with the Prime Minister apparently renewing contacts with perennial contender Razaleigh Hamzah, the last thing Abdullah needs is to get caught in the middle of a political earthquake. "Mahathir had better make sure that while he's trimming...
...government has staunchly defended police conduct, although Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi?who is also Home Minister and responsible for supervising the force?has acknowledged that the police have a p.r. problem. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has gone on the offensive. In parliament last week, he warned that his government was willing to break with "so-called international norms" to preserve peace...