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...With al-Faruq acting as the point man, al-Qaeda received financial and operational assistance from Jemaah Islamiah (JI), a militant group that seeks to establish a pure Islamic state in Southeast Asia and is active in at least five countries--Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. The CIA report states that Abubakar Ba'asyir, 64, the cleric who is the alleged spiritual leader of JI, "authorized Faruq to use JI operatives and resources to conduct" the embassy bombings planned for last week; al-Faruq told the CIA that Ba'asyir dispatched a JI member named Abu al-Furkan...
...Japanese nationals allegedly abducted in the 1970s and '80s?Japan wants them back before the two countries can normalize relations. Meanwhile, North Korean Foreign Minister Paek Nam Sun met with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell for a 15-minute chat on the sidelines of the asean meeting in Brunei two weeks ago, the highest level encounter between the two sides since George W. Bush became President...
...home the themes he still preaches at his school in central Java today: the glory of a martyr's death and the overriding goal of setting up a Muslim government. Officials say he espoused the formation of a new Islamic state encompassing Malaysia, Indonesia, the southern Philippines, Singapore and Brunei. To fund such an ambitious vision, he was in contact with al-Qaeda paymasters and responsible for funneling money through branches of some Middle Eastern banks in Malaysia to his own newly founded cells of Jemaah Islamiah, which gradually stretched through peninsular Malaysia to Singapore, as well as to other...
...Going Once Display of garish wealth or shopping opportunity of the century? Call it what you will, but the auction in Brunei to help pay off the massive debts of the Sultan's naughty playboy brother, Prince Jefri Bolkiah, was the tackiest display of useless extravagance ever assembled. If your shopping list included gold-plated toilet-brush holders, 8,500 slabs of Italian marble and an attack-helicopter simulator, you were in luck. The citizens of Brunei were not: in a victory for good taste, the auction raised a paltry $8 million...
...Asian tourism hard. There are frequent direct flights from Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Bombay and New Delhi. Luxury hotels are a growth industry (see Hot Deals). And since March, immigration officials have been issuing 30-day visas on arrival to visitors from South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore. The drive is working: the number of Asian tourists rose from 230,000 in 1990 to 570,00 in 1999. As Dubai is discovering, there's more than one way to fuel a country...