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...protected by anti-aircraft missiles, as are the huge refinery facilities on the island's southwest section of Jurong, where multinationals such as Shell and Exxon Mobil maintain large facilities. In mid-October Singapore deployed units of its armored division around the area as further safeguards. By Simon Elegant/Kuala Lumpur...
...haul stolen by six men with a single revolver in a daring bank heist at Malaysia's Petronas Twin Towers last week in Kuala Lumpur...
...hearing this week), he may have been caught up in a possibly half-baked plot to get involved in the Afghan conflict. One of his alleged co-conspirators, Ahmed Ibrahim Bilal, gave himself up Oct. 6 in Malaysia, where he was studying at the International Islamic University in Kuala Lumpur. According to a Jordanian student at the university who asks to be identified only as "Abdullah," Bilal told him he had tried to enter Afghanistan but couldn't succeed once the U.S. bombing had begun...
...when he grew up changed. His goals were more related to his heart." His family expected that his future would involve aiding Muslim charities and studying the Koran. The U.S. saw his future in terrorism. Now it's with the courts. --With reporting by Hannah Beech/Shanghai, Simon Elegant/Kuala Lumpur and Polly Forster and Nathan Thornburgh/Portland
...when five of them sought to enter Afghanistan last fall to fight in support of the Taliban. Four of the six, including Bilal's brother, have been arrested in the U.S., while one suspect remains at large. Bilal himself flatly denies the charge. A straight-A student at Kuala Lumpur's International Islamic University, Bilal was well-liked by his peers and, odd for an alleged terrorist, noted for his American patriotism. The 25-year-old also planned to marry his girlfriend this December. It could be a lengthy engagement...