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...groups has been hijacked by Islamic radicalism. "In the post-9/11 world, there is no such thing anymore as a local Muslim struggle," says Rohan Gunaratna, author of the book Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror and who is assembling a database on extremist Islamic groups in Southeast Asia. "Be it al-Qaeda or one of its affiliates, some part of the international Islamic militant movement will move in with logistical help, training and, above all, money...
...Labor, relations with Australia's Southeast Asian neighborhood are as important as those with the U.N. and the U.S. A Labor government would "accelerate, broaden and deepen the engagement of our police, intelligence and security agencies" in the region, Rudd says. In sending troops to Iraq, he adds, the government "diverted resources away from the war against terrorism here in our own region." But "terrorism is a global problem," says Downer...
...very close links with terrorist organizations beyond our region. To think you can simply focus on the region and get away with ignoring all the other challenges the war on terror brings us is mistaken." Ending Taliban rule in Afghanistan reduced the flow of al-Qaeda-trained terrorists into Southeast Asia, Downer points out. On the other hand, Labor's Christmas troop pullout from Iraq "would give an enormous propaganda victory to the terrorists, not just in Iraq but elsewhere, including Southeast Asia." Abu Baker Bashir, the alleged leader of J.I., said last month that "it would be better...
...Social Chair Alka R. Tandon ’07 added that while “the sum itself definitely isn’t as big as the people there need,” the event also reinforced “the idea that we are still connected to southeast Asia...
...TIME European Hero in 2003), is impressed: "I spent my life fighting for these laws and suddenly they are on the books." She adds, however, that changing the law is not enough: they must now be implemented. The changes are most pronounced in the troubled southeast. Kurds who were once jailed for listening to Kurdish songs can now attend Kurdish language courses and watch Kurdish TV. Turkish security forces have limited their crackdown after Kurdish militants called off a cease-fire in June. And the promise of democratic reform has helped undermine the rebels' justification for violence. "Turkey has made...