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...security chiefs have a complaint of their own. They are put in an impossible position, they argue, because while Arafat makes no bones about his wishes behind closed doors, he has refrained from publicly issuing decrees ordering the arrest of Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders or the disarming of Fatah militias. And in the absence of unambiguous public pronouncements by the chairman of the PA, Dahlan and Rajoub say it is difficult to sustain a crackdown. But Arafat remains reluctant to risk the ire of a substantial portion of Palestinian public opinion by openly declaring war on many...
...TIME: But it is not just the government that is accusing you. Several of the Malaysians under arrest there have identified you as the leader of the Kumpulan Mujahideen Malaysia (KMM) and the leader of Jemaah Islamiah...
...Police in Malaysia say they now have a clear picture of how al-Qaeda managed to reprogram just such a radical group. The Malaysian authorities had been tracking the KMM for months before they moved to arrest the 12 alleged ringleaders under suspicion of a rash of crimes, including a bank robbery that left several members dead, a political assassination and bombings of temples and churches...
...push in recent years to boost the numbers of visitors from the Middle East, attracted in part by Malaysia's policy of visa-free entry for citizens of most Islamic countries. "How do we stop these Arabs?" asks one official. "Even if we suspect them we can't just arrest people...
...even after radicalization. In so doing, they avoid detection and are able to work longer for their networks." That, authorities maintain, was precisely the case with Cherifi - who they say provided al-Qaeda cells with money and documents they needed to plan and carry out strikes. While Cherifi's arrest is important, police claim he was only part of a larger system that continues to operate without him. If French authorities are right, Sept. 11 was not the culmination of a single plot but just one thread in a much larger fabric of terror that is still unfolding...