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...being mainly a separatist issue for the Philippines into a terrorist problem for the rest of Southeast Asia has Malaysian and Indonesian officials on full alert. (Both countries have porous maritime borders with Mindanao.) Over recent weeks, Malaysian police have detained six suspects in the town of Sandakan in Borneo for arranging the transport of JI recruits to Mindanao. Meanwhile, Indonesian police say that several of the 18 men arrested for plotting and executing the Dec. 5 bombing of a McDonald's outlet in Makassar in South Sulawesi province have confessed to being trained in Mindanao. And investigators now allege...
...GERONIMO! From jungle trekking through Borneo to kayaking in Nepal, this ecoadventure travel site organizes thrills and spills for the hard-core adventurer. With experienced local guides and tour leaders, you can heed the call of the wild without the danger of getting lost...
...thankful the rickety raft’s single engine drowned out her voice: She kept complaining about Vietnam’s Third World status, evidenced, she thought, by its lack of Diet Coke. I got here by accepting a Let’s Go job backpacking through Borneo and the Philippines. My reward for completing the itinerary was an open-ended airline ticket. I came seeking to confirm my mother’s stories, to see where my father had fought during the war and to meet my Vietnamese relatives for the first time. My sister came because...
...Faruq may not have known was that in early 2002, U.S. and regional intelligence officials had picked up his signal. On Feb. 25, according to intelligence reports, the CIA informed regional counterparts that three Indonesian-based Islamic militants had established a training school for terrorists on the island of Borneo. Indonesian investigators discovered that four MMI operatives, including al-Faruq, had held training exercises at the same location. While al-Faruq initially managed to stay beyond the reach of authorities, some of his closest associates ran out of luck. In March Dwikarna was arrested in Manila after airport security guards...
...Indian government wanted the charge of culpable homicide against Warren Anderson, a U.S. citizen, to be reduced to negligence. But a judge argued that Anderson had not yet applied to have his charges reduced. INDONESIA Migrant Malaise Dozens of Indonesians have died while stranded in a refugee camp in Borneo after being ousted from Malaysia for working there illegally. Of the 25 deaths since the end of July in Nunukan, East Kalimantan province, 15 have been children under age five. The Indonesian Red Cross said that the camp, now home to more than 25,000 refugees, is overcrowded and unsanitary...