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...intelligence services have homed in on Arab men as potential terrorists, the organizers could shift to Asian Muslims - Filipinos, Malaysians, Indonesians. Security officials in Europe and Asia profess concerns about al-Qaeda links to the Philippines? Abu Sayyaf group. Philippine officials acknowledge that bin Laden?s brother-in-law Mohamad Jamal Khalifa served as a financial backer for Abu Sayyaf up to 1994. Two months ago the government rejected his offer to help crush the movement...
...skinny 25-year-old munching on a Big Mac in a Kuala Lumpur suburb doesn't realize it, but he represents salvation for Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Once a member of the ruling United Malays National Organization (UMNO), Kamaruddin defected to the opposition Islamic Party of Malaysia as a result of Mahathir's treatment of his charismatic deputy, Anwar Ibrahim, three years ago. Joining what appeared to be a rising tide of public sentiment, Kamaruddin and his friends attended numerous street demonstrations and political meetings in support of the Islamic Party, known by its Malay acronym...
...logging interests in Borneo?who can be ruthless. There was talk of a bounty on his head and suspiciously heavy movements of police and loggers in the area at the time of his disappearance. Malaysia's politicians were fed up with the troublesome foreigner. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad publicly complained of "white people (who) think we do not know how to administer our country...
...back on incentives for foreign investors and balked at forcing companies to repay their debts. Late last year, Taiwan's President Chen ordered banks to keep lines of credit open to delinquent debtors, a move that has put a straitjacket on liquidity and dampened investment. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad clings to a peg that has hugely overvalued the ringgit. "It's going to take Thailand and Malaysia 10 years," says Tim Condon, chief economist at ING Barings. "So far, most Asian economies aren't willing to let the market have its way with them...
...Professor Henry Higgins made a duchess out of a cockney flower girl. Could he have done the same for a lass from the antipodes? Unlikely, according to renowned cultural relativist Mahathir Mohamad, who is also Prime Minister of Malaysia. In a speech last week on the general theme of The Evils of the West, Mahathir accused the English-speaking world of forcing its language on the East?and ridiculed Australians for speaking that language so abysmally. He worked up his best Oz accent to quote Henry Higgins' famous tutorial: "The rine in Spine fell minely on the pline...