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...Malaysian police sources told TIME that on June 9 they arrested 36-year-old Alias Osman in a Kuala Lumpur suburb. Alias, they claim, was a member of the militant Islamic group Jemaah Islamiah (JI). Police say he led them to an oil-palm plantation where a cache of chemicals was buried, including an unspecified amount of sodium azide, a powder that can be used to make poison gas. "When mixed with water, acid or metal, it changes rapidly to a highly toxic gas," says a Malaysian-government chemist. "The gas can be fatal...
...leaves al-Jadawel for a spin in his car, he wears a white shirt and a red-checked Arab headdress. That way, he hopes, nobody will mistake him for an infidel. --Reported by Timothy J. Burger, Massimo Calabresi, Elaine Shannon, Mark Thompson and Adam Zagorin/Washington, Bruce Crumley/Casablanca, Simon Elegant/Kuala Lumpur, Scott Macleod/Riyadh and Tim McGirk/Tehran
...firm, based near Manila, claimed about 130,000 subscribers. Today, as he departs, he is credited with helping build Globe to 7 million subscribers and $129 million in profit for 2002. Ying, 45, starts in May as COO of a larger telecom firm, Maxis Communications, based in Kuala Lumpur. First on the to-do list of this wine and cigar lover is integrating the recent acquisition of a rival firm, TimeCel...
...arrests could also help investigators unravel the inner workings of al-Qaeda. FBI sources say Attash, a key suspect in the October 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, met that January in Kuala Lumpur with two Sept. 11 hijackers and Southeast Asian jihadists. Because Attash once worked as one of bin Laden's bodyguards--until losing a foot several years ago in Afghanistan--investigators hope to press him on where his boss is hiding. --By Tim McGirk/Islamabad and Elaine Shannon/Washington, with reporting by Ghulam Hasnain/Karachi
...arrests could also help investigators unravel the inner workings of al-Qaeda. FBI sources say Attash, a key suspect in the October 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, attended a meeting that January in Kuala Lumpur where al-Qaeda leaders mapped out the Sept. 11 attacks. And because Attash once worked as one of bin Laden's bodyguards?until losing a foot several years ago in Afghanistan?investigators hope to press him about the whereabouts of his boss...