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...according to I Made Mangku Pastika, the general leading the Bali investigation, Amrozi prayed five times each day and read the Koran each night. When he felt he was ready to seek his brother's blessing, he was brought into an Islamic school near the tiny settlement of Sungei Tiram. The school was Militant U. Among those who gathered there, according to regional intelligence officials, were Abubakar, Sungkar (who died of natural causes in 1999), Hambali and Mukhlas. The four men used the madrasah as a base for recruiting their earliest disciples. One of the first was Amrozi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Bali Plot | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...when a group of Islamic radicals associated with Hambali botched a bank robbery in a Kuala Lumpur suburb. Two of them were killed, and one was captured. Astonished Malaysian police began piecing together the world of militant Islam. More raids and arrests followed, and these led police to the Sungei Tiram madrasah, which was shut down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Bali Plot | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...rubber estate near Sungei Siput, 100miles northeast of Kuala Lumpur, about 50 frogs began furiously hopping around and biting one another. Soon 3,000 frogs joined the bloody fray. For two days the battle raged. When it was over, the swampy battlefield was littered with the torn bodies of 700 frogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALAYSIA: Of Frogs and Floods | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

...country's twelve-year struggle against Communist terrorists began after frogs warred in Kedah in 1948. Two weeks before violent race riots erupted in Kuala Lumpur in early 1969, there had been a huge frog battle near Penang. Thus when the latest frog fight broke out at Sungei Siput in November, local astrologers and bomohs (witch doctors) predicted another major calamity for Malaysia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALAYSIA: Of Frogs and Floods | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

Social Security. In Penang, Malaya, public notice in the Straits Times announced: "All persons residing in Kedah and Perlis who are in possession of Orang Utans are required to declare them to the ame Warden. Kedah and Perlis. Sungei Patani, within ten days for Registration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY: Miscellany, may 2, 1960 | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

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