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...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 say that while there he befriended al-Qaeda members fighting in support of the Bosnians. After being forced to resign from the army because of his ties to Islamic...
...NAMED. SYED SIRAJUDDIN SYED PUTRA JAMALULLAIL 58, the ruler of Perlis, Malaysia's smallest state, as the country's 12th King since 1957; in Kuala Lumpur. Syed Sirajuddin, trained at Britain's Sandhurst, served in the army before succeeding his father as Sultan of Perlis last year. His election has no political significance; the ceremonial crown is rotated among royalty every five years. RETIREMENT ANNOUNCED. Of DICK ARMEY, 65, the House of Representatives Republican majority leader since 1995; in Washington, D.C. Armey, extolled by fellow Texan George W. Bush for his tax-cutting agenda, will step down after completing...
...Thani, who is 21 years old, attended Sandhurst Military College in the United Kingdom and has served as a lieutenant in the Qatari Armed Forces...
...thought him "not clever enough to go to the Bar," and instead encouraged him to enter the army. As Churchill left Harrow, he predicted to his friends that one day he would lead the defense of London against a deadly foe. He also thrice took the entrance examination for Sandhurst (Britain's West Point) before passing, and even then scored only well enough to join the less prestigious cavalry...
...Sandhurst, though, Churchill began to shine. He graduated 20th in a talented class of 130 cadets, and then shipped out to India. In India, Churchill established himself as a national war hero and as an emergent man of letters. He felt the "desire for learning" at age twenty-two, and he gave himself a better education than his peers received from Oxford and Cambridge schoolmasters. He then began to write popular but anonymous war columns for London newspapers. Once he went to the front with the Malakand Field Force, he supplied Londoners with riveting accounts of the battle...