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...Yazid has admitted to giving suspected hijacker Moussaoui a cover letter from a Malaysian company introducing him as its U.S. marketing consultant. The letter, U.S. sources say, contained a guarantee that Moussaoui would be paid $35,000 for his services. Malaysian officials deny reports, however, that Yazid confessed to actually giving money to Moussaoui during his visits to Malaysia. "Yazid has told us no money changed hands," one official says...
...These sources also say he was the mastermind behind a series of bombing missions around the region. In one example, Hambali sent a known associate, Malaysian Taufik Abdul Halim to Jakarta, where he was arrested on Aug. 1, 2001, after a bomb he was carrying exploded and blew off one of his legs. Last fall in Malaysia itself, Hambali instructed Yazid Sufaat, a former Malaysian army captain now under detention in Kuala Lumpur, to place an order for four tons of ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer that can be used as a bombmaking ingredient. The current whereabouts of the chemical remains...
...More arrests might be in store. Malaysian officials say that despite the 50 previously detained suspects, several hundred more are still at large. And in Singapore, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong recently warned residents that despite the arrests there could well still be terrorists in their midst. "I do not want to alarm you," he said, "but it is prudent for us to work on the assumption that a bomb may go off somewhere in Singapore someday...
...high, official sources say, and al-Qaeda is still apparently able to command significant funds, non-Muslim criminals - some of them outwardly respectable businessmen - are a key part of the process. "The syndicate is based in Malaysia," says Mat, "and is made up largely of Overseas Chinese and some Malaysian Chinese." The middlemen and their sponsors represent the murky underworld where Islamic ideology becomes entwined with the straightforward criminal activity of gunrunning. The size and complexities of that network illustrate the difficulties of an effective government crackdown...
...Malaysian officials say the security problem is compounded by the country's successful push in recent years to boost the numbers of visitors from the Middle East, attracted in part by Malaysia's policy of visa-free entry for citizens of most Islamic countries. "How do we stop these Arabs?" asks one official. "Even if we suspect them we can't just arrest people...