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...Malaysian police have consistently refused to confirm the arrests publicly, and the head of the force's criminal investigation department, Fauzi Shaari, did not respond to repeated phone calls seeking an interview on the issue. But Malaysian security sources and a regional intelligence official have told TIME that the five separatists?who are still under interrogation in Malaysia?were forced to retrieve the arms because intensified security in the Thai south had made it hard to source weapons at home...
...Shaari has been forced to fend off such questions since the U.S. Treasury Department dubbed the Islamic center in north Milan the main station house in Europe for Osama bin Laden?s al-Qaeda network in early October. American officials say weapons, information, money and men have moved through a network of fundamentalists operating in and around the two-story, 400-sq-m center that blends into an industrial neighborhood of abandoned warehouses, low-rise offices and a Fiat repair shop...
...center, which opened in 1989, has been under surveillance since its days in the 1990s as a base for both humanitarian and military aid to Muslims in Bosnia. In June 1995, police raided the premises and arrested dozens of men on allegations of terrorism. One of Shaari?s predecessors, Anwar Shaban, who was under investigation in Italy for possible terrorist links, was later killed under mysterious circumstances in Croatia after going to help the Bosnian cause. The Milan institute?s name pops up again in the trial of suspects in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Africa...
...Shaari, who smiles easily and wears his reading glasses hanging down around his neck, denies that the center is in any way involved in supporting or planning terrorism. He says he cannot be held responsible for the actions of all of the more than 4,000 faithful who come through the doors each week to pray, study, eat and watch Arabic videotapes...
...open book," says Shaari. "We haven?t heard from the Americans. But if the Treasury or the CIA or FBI want to come, they just have to call 15 minutes beforehand and take off their shoes when they get here...