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...fields of study, amounting to an impressive range and number of subjects compared to other technical institutes. I hardly think that the Harvard science student who sleeps through the 25 required lectures on Moral Reasoning or Foreign Cultures can be considered any more well-rounded than his or her Southeast Cambridge counterparts
...program, says this Turkish-based language, spoken by about eight million people in China?s Sinkiang Uigur autonomous region, has come up occasionally in terrorism cases.. Ditto Amharic and Tigrinya, spoken in Ethiopia, Tamil, the language of the Sri Lankan terrorist group Tamil Tigers, and the dialects of Southeast Asia, where Muslim extremism is rising. ?About 90 percent of the world?s population speak [one of] 60 or 70 languages,? says Gulotta, ?but there are about 6000 languages and dialects spoken in the world and if one of those languages comes up we can?t ignore...
...been lost to raids and arrests," Hambali claimed. J.I. had been virtually "destroyed." Many intelligence officials and analysts disagree, saying J.I. has been wounded but remains extremely dangerous. Hambali was probably "trying to steer his interrogators," argues Zachary Abuza, author of a forthcoming book on al-Qaeda in Southeast Asia, "trying to make them feel complacent." Of the assertions Hambali made to his jailers, his assessments of J.I.'s powers were the ones they were least likely to trust. --Reported by Massimo Calabresi/Washington, Andrew Perrin/Bangkok, Nelly Sindayen/Manila and Jason Tedjasukmana/ Jakarta
...jihad, he made his way to Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he underwent basic military training in an al-Qaeda camp. After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Lillie, according to his own account, received a letter from Hambali, an Indonesian who had started off as an activist in Islamist causes in Southeast Asia but had gone on to serve the global-reaching al-Qaeda. In the letter, Hambali asked whether Lillie was prepared to join in a suicide attack. When he replied yes, Lillie claimed, he received an invitation to meet with Osama bin Laden in Kabul. There, Lillie said...
Their plans for "martyrdom" disrupted, Lillie and Amin found themselves instead working directly for Hambali in Southeast Asia. Hambali told interrogators the men had no other friends but him. Thai police say it was Amin and Lillie who led them to Hambali. Trailing Amin, they spotted him in the company of Lillie. Those two were arrested in June and August, respectively, and Lillie directed police to Hambali. Before the three were busted, they had worked, according to their confessions, as a liaison unit between al-Qaeda and extremist militants in Southeast Asia, principally those of Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.), a network...