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...epidemiologists' hopes that Hanoi's strict quarantine efforts had contained the disease. In Malaysia, where its government had maintained for weeks that there were no SARS victims in the country, the number of suspected cases leapt from zero to 59 in just a few days. Critics quickly assailed Kuala Lumpur for the same obfuscatory practices used in China that may have contributed to the disease's silent spread. The Malaysian government flatly denied a cover-up, and top health officials held daily briefings for reporters, leading even its harshest critics to acknowledge that the government appeared to have learned from...
...Those kinds of conversations are no more. They've been replaced by versions of an exchange I had recently in Kuala Lumpur. A Malaysian political analyst asked about my provenance. As I replied his eyes narrowed. "Can you explain what your President is doing...
...terrorist network has proved itself infinitely adaptable. There are plenty of potential lieutenants waiting to replace Mohammed, even though they may lack his experience. In that regard, Gunaratna and U.S. sources mention Tawfiq bin Atash, otherwise known as Khallad, a Yemeni. Bin Atash attended a notorious meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in January 2000, at which two of the Sept. 11 hijackers were also present, and is thought to have run--under Mohammed's guidance--the operation later that year to bomb the U.S.S. Cole in Aden harbor. According to reports out of Pakistan, bin Atash's brother, Umar...
...backed by air and artillery support) against one of the MILF's last remaining strongholds near the town of Pikit. The generals initially said they were after a band of kidnappers. But the MILF took a pounding, just weeks before more peace talks were to be held in Kuala Lumpur. Feeling betrayed, the MILF's frail 61-year-old spiritual leader, cleric Hashim Salamat, made an emotional appeal for all Muslims with access to arms to "fight until death." In a taped speech broadcast on Feb. 24 by a Cotabato regional radio station, he said, "We are pushed...
...Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in the southern state of Johor. Azahari, a central figure in JI, has been identified in confessions of other plotters as the designer of the Bali bombs. "Azahari is the one that the police are really worried about," says a senior Western diplomat in Kuala Lumpur. "He's the one who has been to Afghanistan, has the al-Qaeda connection and can build bombs. That's a frightening combination...