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...There is plenty of evidence that al-Qaeda operatives, or their proxies, are still active in the region. According to sources at all levels of the clandestine arms trade in Southeast Asia, meetings - sometimes several a month - between representatives of militant Islamic groups and their al-Qaeda financiers continue to take place in Malaysia: in cheap hotels and guest houses outside Kuala Lumpur, in the beach resort of Port Dickson and in the cities of Melaka and Johore Baru across the strait from Singapore. "These groups use the Internet to set up the venue and date for their meetings," says...
...While the scope and reach of Malaysia's terror network is alarming, what is more surprising is that fundamentalist and separatist movements throughout Southeast Asia have been funded and armed by al-Qaeda operatives, sometimes without the guerrillas themselves knowing the identity of their backers. Equally troubling is the fact that the al-Qaeda terror network is linked with not only extremist Islamic groups but a host of criminal syndicates. Kuala Lumpur and the other governments can no longer blame foreigners, especially Arabs, for their domestic terrorist problems. The money might come from abroad, but the extremism and criminal support...
...interest. They've studied the Philippines; they've worked here before. I've been coming here personally off and on since 1985. That's routine. Some of the teams won't be specific to the Philippines, so they might have had recent experiences in Thailand or somewhere else in Southeast Asia...
...mph—is the second-fastest-moving object in sports behind the jai-alai ball. “Bad,” as O’Connor and her teammates call it, is a game of nuance, strategy and superhuman agility, played most competitively in Southeast Asia and Denmark. Badminton was first observed by British army personnel in occupied India circa 1850, where—called “Poona”—it had existed for centuries. Entranced by the game, the soldiers brought it home. As lore has it, one afternoon the Duke of Beaufort...
...Hoping to capitalize on the national unity sparked by the September 11th terror attacks, the President continued to promote volunteerism Thursday during a swing through the Southeast. "The way I view this, we are fighting evil. The best way to fight evil is with acts of kindness," Bush told a group of senior citizen volunteers in Florida...