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Bashir Bin Lap, a Malaysian known in radical circles as Lillie, studied to be an architect at Malaysia's Polimas Polytechnic. But drawn by the lure of jihad, he made his way to Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he underwent basic military training in an al-Qaeda camp. After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Lillie, according to his own account, received a letter from Hambali, an Indonesian who had started off as an activist in Islamist causes in Southeast Asia but had gone on to serve the global-reaching al-Qaeda. In the letter, Hambali asked whether Lillie was prepared to join...
...sort their friends by continent but can't answer the question "Where are you from?" without a pause. It's not just Western kids in Asia who feel this tug of conflicting identities: Asians in Europe face exactly the same sense of internal conflict. Lili Sin Hidge is a Malaysian-raised Hong Kong Chinese living in London. She has two teenage daughters with her husband, a Eurasian who grew up in South Africa. "They're much more free to do what they want," she says of kids in England. "But I want my children to be at home with...
...This organization is today collapsing on its clay feet, helpless to protect the weak and the poor." MAHATHIR MOHAMAD, Malaysian Prime Minister, in a speech at the United Nations in New York City...
...Regional intelligence officials have told Time that Hambali began to talk openly about his terror activities shortly after he was taken to an undisclosed location to face u.s. interrogators. One of the key revelations: Hambali told the interrogators that his replacement in the network is Azahari bin Husin, a Malaysian geophysics professor who trained with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and literally wrote the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) manual on bomb building. Indonesian police now want Azahari for his suspected role in constructing the bombs that killed more than 200 people in Bali last October and 12 people at the J.W. Marriott...
...Hyperbolic promotions to lure back tourists are de rigueur in Asia these days?from Malaysian shopping carnivals to Hong Kong air ticket giveaways. And the Koh Samui Carnival is an example of the kind of latter-day tourism twaddle that should never have made it past a boardroom brainstorm...