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...days last week, Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi set aside his responsibilities as the nation's leader and took up another, more difficult role: that of a grieving husband. Abdullah's wife of four decades, Endon Mahmood, died on Oct. 20 at age 64 after a four-year battle with breast cancer. In a relatively conservative country with a Muslim majority, the couple were known for their public displays of affection, often hugging or bestowing pecks on each other's cheeks. During the funeral, Abdullah, 65, did his best to appear stoic. Wearing a traditional black songkok...
...Endon has been a distraction for the Prime Minister. Once he has had a chance to mourn her passing, you'll find that he comes back much more focused and more determined than ever to fulfill his agenda." Abdul Razak Baginda, who heads a pro-administration think tank, the Malaysian Strategic Research Center, observes: "He may even be stronger. After all, he promised his wife that he would soldier on and leave behind an enduring political legacy...
...Along with luck and formidable bombmaking abilities, Azahari and Nurdin, once colleagues in the geophysics department of an obscure Malaysian university, have one other critical talent?the ability to convince young men to sacrifice their lives in the name of Islam. Azyumardi Azra, a moderate Islamic scholar and rector of the State Islamic University in Jakarta, argues that a combination of poverty, the speed of societal change since the fall of dictator Suharto in 1998, and the Western military presence in Iraq, has left many young Muslims alienated and receptive to the message of global jihad. "The recruiters are good...
...just Indonesia that's vulnerable to this force of malleable recruits. Some of them are already being dispatched from Indonesia to help fellow militants in neighboring countries. A Malaysian security official told TIME that three Indonesian militants arrested on June 9 in the Malaysian Borneo state of Sabah revealed to interrogators that they were intending to die as suicide bombers in the Philippines' troubled, Muslim-majority south. A senior Philippine security official has told TIME that after the arrest of militant Abdullah Sunata on July 2 in Indonesia, the authorities recovered e-mails between Sunata and Umar Patek, a fellow...
...cumulative effect on Asia. So far, the threat of radical Islam in the region is confined to Indonesia and the Philippines. (In southern Thailand, the issue, for now, is Muslim disaffection with the central government in Bangkok.) Through decisive action?arrests and effective gathering and sharing of intelligence?the Malaysian and Singaporean governments have dismantled the terrorist infrastructures in their countries. But the extremists can use Indonesia and the Philippines as launchpads to strike at neighboring nations...