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...then started a side business importing speakers and amplifiers, and later DVD players, from China. The first units they imported and sold through Circuit City differed from others sold in the U.S. at the time in that they could play MP3 files. The players also sported a quirk Ji and Hsu say they were unaware of: a manufacturing error allowed users to copy DVDs to videotape and override coding that prevents DVDs of films from being viewed in countries where they have not been released...
...Ji and Hsu are expanding the Apex brand. They launched a television line earlier this year and are looking into digital cameras and air conditioners. Both men rack up loads of frequent-flyer miles across the Pacific. "I'm much busier than I want to be," says Hsu, the father of a girl, 8, and a boy, 4. He likes to spend his downtime watching cartoons with the kids and teaching his daughter to roller-skate...
...Ji, a slight man who accompanies handshakes with a subtle bow, has yet to embrace the trappings of executive life. His daughter, Jean, 24, who with her mother joined Ji in 1994, says her father eschews luxury items. A Cartier watch, a gift from Hsu, sits ignored in a drawer while Ji continues wearing the same beat-up Swiss-made Cyma timepiece that he's been changing wristbands on for at least a decade. An employee was recently shocked to find Ji, ever practical, scrubbing the men's room at company headquarters. Such modesty fits nicely with Apex Digital...
...rejects the idea that slaughtering innocent civilians is a method of holy warfare. Gunaratna concedes that when it comes to the crunch, most militants balk at kamikaze-style attacks. He recounts a telling anecdote about Riduan Isamuddin, a.k.a. Hambali, the suspected leader of the regional terror network Jemaah Islamiah (JI), widely blamed for the Bali blasts and other deadly bombings. Hambali once asked a group of about 20 potential JI recruits how many would be willing to give up their lives for the cause. "Only one fellow put up his hand," Gunaratna laughs. "Hambali was not very happy...
...trademark, not least because they require detailed planning and extensive resources to execute. What al-Qaeda has always been more notorious for is striking at smaller and softer targets, directly as well as through a network of subsidiaries it has developed globally. An al-Qaeda affiliate?Jemaah Islamiah (JI)?was probably behind the Oct. 12 Bali bombings, and it looks like another al-Qaeda franchisee was responsible for last week's events in Kenya. Security agencies worldwide need to register, however, that these are not new tactics but a pattern of coordinated terrorist acts already witnessed in SE Asia, even...