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Meanwhile, his big brother had been even busier. He spent time in Singapore recruiting a group to conduct surveillance of possible targets for terrorist strikes. According to Singaporean police, Mukhlas employed his relatives. One of those arrested in January 2000 was Hashim bin Abbas, his brother-in-law. The team's plans were foiled when a group of Islamic radicals associated with Hambali botched a bank robbery in a Kuala Lumpur suburb. Two of them were killed, and one was captured. Astonished Malaysian police began piecing together the world of militant Islam. More raids and arrests followed, and these...
...months of specialized training follow for Singaporean men. Having earned a spot in the top 10 percent of his class at boot camp, Myat San went on to Officer Cadet School. Here, he and comrades learned how to act efficiently as a part of a platoon, role-playing different ranks and training with all kinds of weaponry, from grenades to rocket launchers. “You live and die with your M-16,” he says. “It becomes your wife...
...more JI operatives were recruited and trained in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and the southern Philippines, the network of affiliates grew, allowing the terrorists to plot more ambitious attacks. When the first JI cell was broken up in December 2001 by Singaporean and Malaysian officials, it was alarmingly close to executing a major strike on U.S. and other Western embassies in Singapore and Jakarta, as well as launching a U.S.S. Cole-style attack against U.S. naval vessels making port calls. JI hooked up with the MILF and other regional militant groups, and with al-Qaeda funding established...
Under the direction of Chou, 41, Warner Music Taiwan's market share has quadrupled, to 16%, in four years. His biggest coup: signing Yanzi, 24, a Singaporean pop star who last year sold more than a million records. Warner Music Asia Pacific (which, like TIME, is owned by AOL Time Warner) recently added mainland China to Chou's portfolio. Chou remains chairman of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry in Taiwan and leads the battle against digital piracy in the territory...
...Bali was organized and executed on a regional scale. According to Aritonang, funding for the car bomb is believed to have originated from Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia in cash and electronic transfers. (Amrozi bought the van in East Java but paid in a combination of Malaysian ringgit and Singaporean dollars.) Police say at least five terrorist cells were involved in planning the attack, with members coming from four Southeast Asian nations: Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines...