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...police commissioners from Casablanca to Jakarta to sleep comfortably for the first time in more than 500 nights. As spiritual leader and financier of the most shadowy and ubiquitous organization in modern Islam, one that is highly admired by the oppressed of the earth from North Africa to Southeast Asia, bin Laden has represented the biggest threat to scores of archaic Muslim regimes that, combined, govern one-fifth of the world's population and preside over a much higher share of its energy resources...
...thousands of night-life venues are high on the list of attractions, but fewer visitors feel an obligation to view the antiquities at the national museums in Bangkok or Chiang Mai. This is due in part to the upstaging of Thai civilization by the Khmer; for many tourists to Southeast Asia, Cambodia with its temples at Angkor is the cultural must...
...lights, rams on the night goggles and flies into the "Box" as pilots call Iraq. Pilots are being trained to be particularly careful to prevent loss of civilian lives or vital infrastructure. Last week, they used precision-guided weapons to target five underground military communication sites just 60 miles southeast of Baghdad, without taking any civilian lives - though forces were met with Iraqi ground fire. According to the United States Central Command, Iraqi defense has fired at US planes least 110 times since January, although most of the fire came from ineffectual 'Triple As', Anti aircraft artillery guns. Tompkins says...
...Hambali helped plot the 9/11 attacks, and he met with Mohammed in Karachi in 2001 to plan a major terrorist strike in Asia?deliberations that led to the Bali bombings. "The arrest of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed does make the role of Hambali in Southeast Asia much more important," says Zachary Abuza, author of a forthcoming book about al-Qaeda in Asia. But Hambali is now clearly on the run and, according to a regional intelligence source, "that will cramp his style quite a bit." The last confirmed sighting of Hambali was in Bangkok in February 2002. Some...
...defiant message to the terrorists. Extending the middle finger of one hand, he declared, "It's our turn now to start bombing you ... I will create hell for those criminals ... It's either I who will be killed or you, you idiots." The war on terror began in Southeast Asia just a few months after 9/11. It's far from over...