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...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...
...governed nation go the way of Afghanistan. Until recently, it seemed a showdown would not be necessary. Nine years ago, PAS tried to enact similar laws in Kelantan, a neighboring state that it also governs, yet these were never implemented owing to the threat of legal challenges from Kuala Lumpur. But the party's hard-line leader, cleric Hadi Awang, personally runs Terengganu as Chief Minister and he is a determined adversary. In the past weeks, Hadi has made it clear that he intends to put the so-called hudud laws into full effect as soon as possible...
...Mahathir has to tread lightly. One key issue is whether the hudud laws violate the country's constitution. Kuala Lumpur insists that the Terengganu state assembly does not have the right to enact laws covering criminal offenses, which can only be passed by the country's national assembly. The central government's Law Minister recently promised that Terengganu's hudud laws would soon be challenged in court, though legal analysts say they expect the government to allow the suit to come from a private individual or group, not from the Attorney General. Says P. Ramasamy, a professor of political science...