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...been killed in Bangladesh so far this year, and several more have been threatened with violence. Adding to fears that freedom of expression is under attack, Prothom Alo, a Bengali-language newspaper, has been subjected to mass protests by fundamentalists since it suggested recently that some madrasahs in the southeast were being used to train Islamic militants (a claim the madrasahs deny). The newspaper's editor, Matiur Rahman, says copies of the paper have been burned in demonstrations, a bomb has been hurled at one of his journalists, and mobs have demanded both the closure of the newspaper...
...Games with the smallest medal tally of any host country since Canada won only 11 medals at the 1976 Montr?al Olympics, appeared at the bottom of the list at least eight times. One of the most poignant final-place finishes, though, came from Brunei's Jimmy Anak Ahar, the Southeast Asian nation's sole Olympic athlete, who straggled far behind the pack in the 1,500 m, erasing his country's dreams of Olympic respectability. Still sucking wind after his 4:14.11 time, 40 seconds slower than gold medalist El Guerrouj, Ahar swept past reporters, his head downcast...
...Murad firmly dismisses widespread allegations that his own group has collaborated with regional terrorist body Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.)?al-Qaeda's main offshoot in Southeast Asia?or allowed it to train in areas under M.I.L.F. control: "We have had no link with Jemaah Islamiah." But he admits that plenty of non-Philippine radicals have visited M.I.L.F. camps in the past?especially before Sept. 11, 2001?including Indonesian explosives expert Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi, who was killed a year ago in a shootout with government troops in the city of Cotabato. (Murad says al-Ghozi's J.I. connections weren't known...
...Regional security experts say a peace accord between Murad and Arroyo would probably spell the death knell for J.I. "It's simple," says Zachary Abuza, a Southeast Asia terrorism expert. "Without their bases in the Philippines, Jemaah Islamiah cannot survive." Murad goes so far as to say Americans can come on an inspection tour of his camps. "We have nothing to hide," he says with a smile. If he really wants peace, Murad will have to ensure that by the time any peace accord is nearing completion, that claim is true...
...selous game reserve in Southeast Tanzania is the largest in Africa. Established in 1905 and stretching over 21,000 sq. mi., it is bigger than Switzerland and chock-full of wildlife: 4,000 lions, 110,000 buffalo, 50,000 elephants. But because it is hard to access, covered with dense scrub and lacking in the spectacular vistas found in the Serengeti to the north, it draws fewer than 5,000 visitors annually--less than 1% of tourists who visit Tanzania. To pay for the upkeep of the Selous and for antipoaching patrols over its vast area, the reserve's managers...