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...Asia, home to two-thirds of the world's extreme poor, offers plenty. The bust and stagnation of the past few years only made the problem worse. The ILO estimates that the flesh trade has mushroomed into a major regional industry, accounting for 2% to 14% of GDP in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand...
Megawati Sukarnoputri is in a bind. She promised George W. Bush her country's full support in the war on terrorism; on her visit to Washington on Sept. 19, she said, "Indonesia is always against violence. Terrorism is an act of violence so we will definitely fight terrorism." But back home, the fear of a backlash from Indonesian Islamic groups has her government whipsawing in its treatment of terror suspects. Megawati's dilemma may explain why, despite the testimony of its own intelligence, the government couldn't even bring itself to admit the existence of an al-Qaeda terrorist camp...
...That's still the official line about the Jan. 11 deportation of Pakistani Havis Muhhamad Saad Iqbal; but Egyptian diplomats have never heard of him. "We have no knowledge of this matter," says Minister Plenipotentiary Reda El-Taify. "We are not aware that Egyptian intelligence was ever in Indonesia or that the Pakistani was wanted in Egypt." So where did Havis go? One clue: the 25-year-old was wanted by the U.S. for a possible connection to the shoe bomber, Richard Reid. Intelligence sources in Jakarta say Havis was bundled onto a CIA Gulfstream G-5 executive...
...links between U.S. and Indonesian security forces go back some way. Even before the Sept. 11 attacks, intelligence sources say, Indonesia had quietly handed over other terror suspects directly into the hands of U.S. agents. American and Indonesian intelligence operatives conducted at least one joint operation to track down suspected al-Qaeda members. The missions were kept highly secret, not only to head off any possible public outrage but because the government itself was deeply split on the extent and nature of such actions...
Kenya ranks near the bottom of Berlin-based Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, beaten only by such "show-me-the-money" countries as Nigeria and Indonesia. High-level corruption continues unabated, as evidenced by the 1990s Goldenberg scandal - named for a company that allegedly exported nonexistent gold and then claimed export credits from the Central Bank. The financial scam cost Kenya at least $400 million and allegedly involved top officials and senior politicians close to President Daniel arap Moi. International donors have frozen funds earmarked for Kenya in large part because of the country's failure...