Word: sabah
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...December, when the Agriculture Ministry looked into the first reports of bird flu among fowl far to the east in Dogubeyazit, the press said that its inspectors failed to notify the Health Ministry of any risk. "Turkey ignored all the warnings," Erdal Safak, columnist at the mainstream daily Sabah, told Time. "The government wasted valuable time. There was no public awareness campaign, no precautions were taken along documented migration routes, and provincial vets were not adequately equipped." In the week that followed the Kocyigits' diagnosis, the who says, at least 16 other Turks in nine of the country...
...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...
...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 confirmed...
...male parliament. Even last week, more than a third of members voted against the reform, even though the government had made concessions to soothe them, including the introduction of an amendment to stipulate that women voting or running for office must abide by Islamic law. Now, Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah can expect an especially warm reception when he travels to Washington next month. The U.S. had been pushing Kuwait, one of its staunchest allies in the Middle East, to allow its female citizens to participate in political life. Saudi Arabia is the only country...
...With the insurgency far from over, and no apparent shortage of men prepared to die in the cause of holy war, Australians and their interests will surely be attacked again - and more innocents like Sabah Aziz will pay the price...