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...affiliates are morphing due to increased police pressure (the smaller bombs used on Oct. 1 may be the result of less funding, for example, or stricter security), one aspect of the picture hasn't changed: authorities still believe that the terrorism linchpins in the region are 48-year-old Malaysian statistician Azahari bin Husin and his former student Nurdin Mohammed Top, 37. They are suspected of playing key roles as planners and bombmakers in the 2002 Bali blasts, the August 2003 bombing of Jakarta's JW Marriott Hotel, the September 2004 attack on the Australian embassy in the capital...
...security officials and terrorism experts suspect they were carried out by a group associated with Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the regional network of Islamic militants blamed for the 2002 Bali bombings. Sidney Jones, a Jakarta-based JI expert with the International Crisis Group, speculates that a faction led by fugitive Malaysian bombmaker Azahari bin Husin and his countryman Nordin bin Top may be to blame. Says Jones: "We recently received information that Azahari had started a new special forces group called the Thoisah Moqatilah." The group, says Jones, has apparently split from JI's mainstream elements, which oppose violence...
...Qaeda's leadership and acted as operations chief for Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.), the militant network credited with several bombings in the region, including the October 12, 2002 attack in Bali, Indonesia that killed 202 people. On Khan's first visit, the jailed militant told police, they traveled to the Malaysian state of Sabah in Borneo, where Khan was introduced to a senior member of J.I., Nasir Abbas. Nasir, who remains free but is cooperating with Indonesian police, took Khan to a J.I. training camp on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, a source familiar with the details of the journey...
...China goes, so goes much of Asia, because the mainland's booming demand is critical for regional industries as diverse as Malaysian palm oil, Korean steel and Japanese high-definition TVs. Optimists point out that the impact of the oil-price spike may be softened by the fact that coal, not oil, generates most of China's electricity, somewhat shielding its factories from the effect of rising oil prices. The government also limits the impact of rising fuel costs by dictating the price of gasoline and diesel at the wholesale level each month. Wholesale gas prices in China are currently...
...Abdul Rahim Noor, accept responsibility for the ... assault. The pain and hurt caused to you and to your family is deeply regretted." RAHIM NOOR, former Malaysian police chief, in a statement apologizing for the beating of former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim during Anwar's controversial 1998 arrest on sodomy and corruption charges...