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...argument, is an act of national self-defense, since the Israelis occupy Palestinian territory, deny the Palestinians their national rights and, in enforcing their rule, frequently kill Palestinian civilians. This logic was sufficiently compelling for the 57 Islamic countries at this month's Organization of the Islamic Conference in Kuala Lumpur to exempt Palestinian bombers from their definition of terrorism. Says Marzouk: "The term terrorism should not be applied to people whose land is occupied." And if the victims of those fighting occupation are civilians? "There shouldn't be any distinction between an occupier in uniform or civilian dress," Marzouk...
What is terrorism? The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) was unable to define it during their three-day meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia this week. Neglecting, for the moment, most Arab nations’ cowardly reluctance to condemn the suicide bombers, it is nonetheless easy to understand why the OIC felt little pressing need to give a definition to terror. If the Bush Administration, which declared the war against terrorism, has failed miserably to provide a definition for its war, why should anyone else step up to bat? This is, the Arab nations rightly implied, the United States?...
...crucial potential witness against Moussaoui is a Malaysian Islamic extremist in jail north of Kuala Lumpur on unrelated terrorism charges. FBI Director Bob Mueller traveled to Malaysia two weeks ago and offered local security officials FBI training and other incentives in exchange for access to the man. But the officials, upset because the Western press had described Malaysia as a staging base for the Sept. 11 attacks, rebuffed the FBI chief. Sources say Mueller is still optimistic that the Malaysians will come around and send the prisoner to the U.S. to testify against Moussaoui...
...been working hard, perhaps harder than usual... At the end of trading that [last] day, Leeson gathered up his notes,walked off the floor and began his getaway. By 11:30 that night, he was out of Singapore, checking into a hotel in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, 200 miles to the north. At 7 a.m. [the next day], his wife reportedly jumped into a cab and headed for the airport. In his wake lay a venerable 232-year-old British banking empire rendered suddenly and irretrievably insolvent; half the financial world was reeling in fear, the other half...
...movements throughout Southeast Asia have been funded and armed by al-Qaeda operatives, sometimes without the guerrillas themselves knowing the identity of their backers. Equally troubling is the fact that the al-Qaeda terror network is linked with not only extremist Islamic groups but a host of criminal syndicates. Kuala Lumpur and the other governments can no longer blame foreigners, especially Arabs, for their domestic terrorist problems. The money might come from abroad, but the extremism and criminal support networks are largely homegrown. How Malaysia and the other countries counter this threat will become increasingly the concern not just...