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...also a recruiter for jihad. "He met students outside the campus in the name of holding lessons on Islam," says a government source. "No one suspected anything, and it was considered a good thing." The meetings, which attendees sometimes referred to as "motivation courses," actually featured diatribes against the Malaysian government and calls to Islamic activism. Students who displayed the proper ardor were sent by Azahari to Afghanistan, according to the police. After the Bali blasts, Azahari went on the run, probably fleeing to southern Thailand, although Malaysian police say he continued to use his campus e-mail account...
...Even before 9/11, Malaysia had started clamping down on Islamic fundamentalism, and authorities there have so far detained some 70 suspected radicals, including five UTM academics. But they are continuing to find black sheep in other unexpected places. On Feb. 20, a former lieutenant colonel in the Malaysian Army, Abdul Manaf Kamsuri, was arrested on suspicion of having ties to JI. Abdul Manaf, a high-flying officer who won three merit awards when he graduated from Britain's Sandhurst Military Academy, served nine months in Bosnia as part of Malaysia's U.N. peacekeeping force from 1993 to 1994. Malaysian officials...
...slaughtering people in whatever way, whether it is by dropping bombs or crashing planes into buildings." MAHATHIR MOHAMAD, Malaysian Prime Minister, while hosting the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement...
Unlike fellow former British colonies India and Pakistan, Malaysia has yet to produce a Vikram Seth or an Arundhati Roy. There has been no writer of international stature, or even a literary canon?in Bahasa or English?that one could call Malaysian. The Rice Mother, a delicious fictional cocktail packed with Malaysian flavors, may finally put the country on the global publishing map. Plainly, debut novelist Rani Manicka has studied other Asia-themed best sellers such as Wild Swans and The Joy Luck Club to produce a family saga centered on the tempestuous relationships between mothers and their children...
...Indonesian, Malaysian and even Arab extremists have previously been known to take refuge in Mindanao. For example, both Agus Dwikarna and Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi, two prominent Indonesian militants currently under arrest in Manila for possession of explosives, did stints in Mindanao in the late 1990s. The MILF willingly provided training facilities to foreign fighters, but in the days following the war to oust the Soviets in Afghanistan, the group's hospitality was motivated more by international Islamist solidarity than by anti-Western jihad. In 2000, the Philippine military overran all of the MILF's bases?including its two biggest...