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Islamic fundamentalist groups are pursuing their own agenda, at their own pace and for their own reasons. Their goal is to establish fundamentalist states, whether in Chechnya or Southeast Asia. It is in the national interest of the Russians, faced with such a purpose, to stop being a source of weapons for Iraq. It is time for them to drop their rivalry with the U.S. and get serious about peace. TOM MINCHIN Melbourne...
Another canny strategy: let them think they are eating junk. When the West Orange--Cove school district in southeast Texas started wrapping its part-vegetable-protein, part-beef "burgers" in foil marked CHEESEBURGER, sales tripled. Even some of the fast-food chains are getting in on the act. Kids who order Little Caesars from their school cafeteria are now buying a slimmed-down slice with part-skim mozzarella and fewer rounds of pepperoni. Frito-Lay this fall began delivering Baked Doritos to schools, and in January it will launch Cheetos Reduced Fat snacks, which contain 50% less fat and were...
...Celestial Pictures, a pan-Asian company run by William Pfeiffer, an American who has lived in Asia for 20 years. Celestial is restoring Shaw films from their original negatives and plans to release several titles, with nifty add-ons like original trailers and interviews with the old stars, to Southeast Asian video outlets every few weeks. The first batch of 10 hits stores this Thursday...
...which Samudra confessed responsibility. Last week police extended Abubakar's detention till the end of the year. (Abubakar has consistently denied any terrorist connections and maintains that JI is a spiritual movement that has been demonized by U.S. intelligence officials seeking to blacken the name of Islam in Southeast Asia...
Since the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan, a fragmented al-Qaeda has been relying on its associate groups in Asia, the Middle East and the Caucuses to continue its fight. Of all these groups, Jemaah Islamiah (JI), al-Qaeda's Southeast Asian and Australian arm, has been by far the most active. The countries that took it least seriously until the Bali bombings?Indonesia, Australia and Thailand?are precisely where JI has had most freedom of movement. It's not hard to deduce why Bali struck JI as an ideal target. After all, JI was more constrained in mounting an operation...