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Iran Booted From Defense Show for Displaying Missile Systems April 24, 2008 The Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Malaysia's deputy prime minister says Iran has been ordered to leave an international defense show in Kuala Lumpur. Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak said Iranian firms exhibited missile systems at the Defense Services Asia show that were "offensive" and contravened U.N. resolutions. Najib told reporters Thursday that Malaysian authorities had "no option" but to tell Iran to leave. The annual show began Monday with hundreds of exhibitors from about 50 nations.

The Himalayan Times Online Beyonce Knowles’ Malaysian Concert Axed Beyonce Knowles' debut Malaysian concert has been cancelled following protests by local Muslim groups. The sexy singer's concert was supposed to take place on November 1 in Kuala Lumpur. The news of the cancellation came from Kuala Lumpur-based concert promoter Pineapple Concerts. While a ministry official said that the concert had been cancelled because Pineapple did not apply for a license, sources revealed to Billboard magazine that the real reason was Beyonce's refusal to comply with a dress code, reports the Sun. nder rules introduced by the Ministry of Culture, Arts...

Hardline Islamic law could be introduced across Malaysia under reforms proposed by the country's chief justice. As the nation in south-east Asia celebrated 50 years of independence from Britain yesterday, its government was preparing to discuss a plan that would revolutionise the legal system put in place by its former colonial administrators. Prince Andrew looks on during a parade at the historic Merdeka Square in downtown Kuala Lumpur As Kuala Lumpur witnessed celebrations that included parades, fireworks and a fighter-jet fly-by attended by the Duke of York, the proposal pointed to the deep differences which locals say are poisoning social...

The Star Online Central Thursday December 21, 2006 Dog loses jaw after cruel beating By BAVANI M. JOY, a little black dog whose jaw was surgically removed after he was almost beaten to death, still looks at humans with love. Despite the cruelty rendered to him, he still looks at people to be petted and loved. On Dec 2, Sabrina Yeap, managing partner of the Furry Friends Farm (FFF), rescued Joy at the Ki-Park Sri Utara construction site belonging to developer, Kepong Industrial Park Sdn Bhd (KIP Group). Joy’s jaw had to be surgically removed after it was beaten half...

BosNewsLifeMalaysia Muslims Besiege Catholic Church Amid Baptism Row Malaysia Muslims Besiege Catholic Church Amid Baptism Row Thursday, 09 November 2006 KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA (BosNewsLife)-- Tensions remain high in a Malaysian town outside the capital Kuala Lumpur after up to 1,000 Muslim protestors besieged a Catholic Church following mobile phone text messages claiming that Malay Muslims would be baptized there.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia has extended for two more years the imprisonment of a terror suspect linked to al-Qaeda's attempts to produce chemical and biological weapons, saying he has more information about terrorist operations. Yazid Sufaat, a U.S.-trained biochemist and former Malaysian army captain, was arrested in late 2001 as he returned home from Afghanistan, where officials say he was working on a biological and chemical weapons program for al-Qaeda that was ended by the U.S.-led war. Since then, he has been held without trial under Malaysia's Internal Security Act on accusations of being a member of Jemaah...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 8/3/06 - Aita al-Shaab, Lebanon, Kfar Kila, Maroun al-Ras, Avivim, Chebaa Farms, Kiryat Shmona, Nabatiyeh, Beirut, Qana, Beirut, Tyre, Bekaa, Damascus, Tehran, Jakarta, Seattle Israeli Response to many years of Hamas and Hizb'allah terror using Iranian and Syrian technology in 'Kofi Annan's War' in Civilizations War on Terror BREAKING: Aita al-Shaab, Lebanon - War on Terror BREAKING: Kfar Kila - War on Terror BREAKING: Maroun al-Ras, Lebanon - Terrorists routed BREAKING: Avivim - War on Terror BREAKING: Chebaa Farms - War on Terror BREAKING: Kiryat Shmona - War on Terror BREAKING: Nabatiyeh...

GOTTA SEE THIS WarEndur.Freedom 7/29/06 - Aamchit, Al-Karak, Avivim, Beirut, Hizb'Allah, Bekaa Valley, Byblos, Fassuta, Gaza City, Haifa, Jajoune, Kefar Jaouz, Kfarjouz, Khan Younis, Khiam, Kiryat Shmona, Kuala Lumpur, Majdel Krum, Manara, Marun Al-Ras, Moscow, Nabatiyeh, Nahariya, Qlaia Marjayoun,Ramat David, Rome,Tehran,Tel Aviv,Tulkarm,Tyre, Zefta Israeli Response to many years of Hamas and Hizb'allah terror using Iranian and Syrian technology in 'Kofi Annan's War' in Civilizations War on Terror BREAKING: Aamchit - precision retaliation BREAKING: Al-Karak - precision retaliation BREAKING: Jajoune - precision retaliation BREAKING: Kefar Jaouz - precision retaliation BREAKING: Nabatiyeh - precision retaliation BREAKING: Kfarjouz - precision retaliation and MSM...

Excerpt - KUALA LUMPUR : US top diplomat Condoleezza Rice won rave reviews Thursday for her musical performance at Asian security talks, despite skipping the traditional rowdy skits in favour of a sombre piano recital. With North Korea firing off missiles, carnage in Lebanon, rockets raining on Israel and killings convulsing Iraq, Rice was in no mood for the kind of frivolity staged in previous years. In keeping with her "serious" mood the Secretary of State performed two pieces from the brooding repertoire of Johannes Brahms -- a solo Intermezzo number two, and Brahms Sonata for violin and piano, opus...

TERROR plotter Zacarias Moussaoui told a Muslim militant he dreamed of crashing a plane into the White House, according to testimony at the al-Qaeda conspirator's death penalty trial today. Singapore-born Faiz Abu Bakar Bafana, a member of the radical Indonesia-based group Jemaah Islamiah, said in testimony recorded in 2002 that he hosted a man he knew only as "John" in Kuala Lumpur in mid-2000, who told him of the dream. Jurors later saw Bafana assert during cross-examination that "John" was Moussaoui. Moussaoui is the first person tried in the US in connection with the September 11, 2001 attacks, which killed...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A Good Samaritan who helped a road accident victim found himself injured and lying in a hospital bed several hours later _ next to the man he'd helped _a news report said Tuesday. Police Sgt. Abdul Kadir Said, 47, had stopped to help victims of an accident involving two motorcycles and a truck in the northern Malaysian state of Kedah on Saturday, the New Straits Times newspaper reported. After putting a splint on victims' broken leg, Abdul Kadir sent him in a van to hospital in Alor Star town before heading back to his police station...

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. embassy in Kuala Lumpur was closed on Friday due to a security threat, a spokeswoman in the Malaysian capital said. "We got some information indicating there was a threat to the embassy and decided to close at 11.40 (0340 GMT) this morning," Kathryn Taylor said. "I'm afraid I can't be more specific." Taylor said the embassy would remain closed at least until Tuesday because Monday is a public holiday in the United States. "We'll reassess on Monday whether to open on Tuesday," she said. The U.S. embassy was closed briefly in September...

AHMED HIKMAT SHAKIR IS A shadowy figure who provided logistical assistance to one, maybe two, of the 9/11 hijackers. Years before, he had received a phone call from the Jersey City, New Jersey, safehouse of the plotters who would soon, in February 1993, park a truck bomb in the basement of the World Trade Center. The safehouse was the apartment of Musab Yasin, brother of Abdul Rahman Yasin, who scorched his own leg while mixing the chemicals for the 1993 bomb.When Shakir was arrested shortly after the 9/11 attacks, his "pocket litter," in the parlance of the investigators, included contact...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A mob fire-bombed the headquarters of a bizarre Malaysian cult built around a giant teapot Monday, police and a fireman said, two weeks after the sect was raided by religious officials. About 30-35 assailants armed with Molotov cocktails attacked the commune in the early morning, torching a car and the roof of a building and scorching the giant teapot itself, emergency services officials, local media and a lawyer for the sect said. The sect, which believes the teapot has healing properties, is in Malaysia's northeast, a strongly Muslim area that has suddenly lost patience with the...

KUALA LUMPUR - Foreign powers must not dictate how Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia protect the Strait of Malacca shipping lanes from threats of piracy and terrorism, Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister said yesterday. 'The Strait of Malacca is ours to protect and preserve,' said Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who is also Defence Minister, at a conference on improving security in the pirate-infested waters. 'There are those who forget that the countries bordering the Strait of Malacca - each of them sovereign nations in their own right - have the ultimate say over the protection and preservation of the strait,' he said....

Did Saddam Hussein use any of his ill-gotten billions filched from the United Nations oil-for-food program to help fund Al Qaeda? Investigations have shown that the former Iraqi dictator grafted and smuggled more than $10 billion from the program that for seven years prior to Saddam’s overthrow was meant to bring humanitarian aid to ordinary Iraqis. And the Sept. 11 Commission has shown a tracery of contacts between Saddam and Al Qaeda that continued after billions of oil-for-food dollars began pouring into Saddam’s coffers and Usama bin Laden declared his famous war on the U.S. Now, buried in some of...

Recently translated documents captured by U.S. forces provide new evidence of a direct link between Saddam Hussein's regime and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. Rosters of officers in Saddam's Fedayeen list Lt. Col. Ahmed Hikmat Shakir, who was present at the January 2000 al-Qaida "summit" in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at which the 9-11 attacks were planned, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Fedayeen was the elite paramilitary group run by Saddam's son Uday, which was deployed to do much of the regime's dirty work. The U.S. has never been sure Shakir was at the Kuala...

According to documents obtained by NEWSWEEK, Al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed told U.S. investigators after his capture last year that a high-ranking Qaeda lieutenant known as Khallad originally was "selected" to participate in the 9/11 attacks as a "bouncer"--one of the musclemen assigned to corral and subdue passengers on a hijacked plane. Khallad, a one-legged Yemeni also known as Tawfiq bin Attash, attended a January 2000 "summit" meeting in Malaysia at which he allegedly went over plans for 9/11 with two future hijackers, Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi. After the meeting, Almihdhar and Alhazmi traveled to the United States....

Edict given before Bali blasts, says member KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terrorists responsible for the 2002 Bali bombings and other deadly attacks in South-east Asia were operating under a fatwa, or religious edict, which they believed came from Osama bin Laden, an alleged member of the group said. Hambali, an Indonesian cleric believed to be a top Al-Qaeda operative, distributed the fatwa to JI members before the group launched attacks in Indonesia, Mohamed Nasir Abbas told Malaysia's TV3 network in comments aired yesterday. 'People who believed in the fatwa carried out bombings,' Nasir said. 'People like Hambali...

A major power outage in a key business centre in Kuala Lumpur left hundreds of offices, shopping centres and dozens of hotels without electricity for hours, an official said on Tuesday. 'There is an electricity failure at the 33 KV power distribution centre in Raja Chulan Road,' an official with the state-owned utility giant Tenaga Nasional Bhd told AFP. The official said those in the busy Pudu, Raja Chulan, Imbi, Bukit Bintang and Sultan Ismail roads in Malaysia's capital are without electricity. 'It will take a few hours to get the power back. We are doing our best,' the official...

Video Stream from Japanese TV (NNN Tokyo) showing "New Years Jumping" off of the highest building in the world, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Watch these idiots fly! You can view by hitting the link, (above) for 300 k. Or, try this for 56k viewing. All Windows Media.http://www.bcast.co.jp/cgi-bin/yahoo/news.asx?cid=20040108-00000020-jnn-int-movie-000&media=wm56k

KUALA LUMPUR -- A Malaysian woman has been hospitalised and tested for Sars after developing a high fever on a trip to China, including a visit to Guangdong province, officials said on Monday. The 31-year-old woman was found to have fever, a cough and a sore throat upon her arrival at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Saturday, according to The Star daily. Deputy health director-general Ismail Merican said the woman had been isolated at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital but her fever had subsided and her x-rays were normal. 'We are still waiting for the lab report but we believe...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A veil of secrecy will begin to rise Wednesday when a congressional committee reveals some of the information that U.S. spy agencies knew about suspected terrorist activity before the September 11 attacks -- including the disclosure that analysts knew al Qaeda had previously plotted to use aircraft as terrorist weapons. The recently declassified documents will be made public for the first time during an open hearing of the joint House-Senate Intelligence Committee. One of the main questions investigators are probing: Could the September 11 attacks have been prevented? Joint Senate House Intelligence hearings CNN plans coverage of...

<p>BANGKOK — Hambali, the suspected mastermind of al Qaeda's bombing campaign in Southeast Asia who was captured last week, was plotting terror attacks against a Bangkok summit President Bush is due to attend, Thailand's prime minister said yesterday. Hambali, an Indonesian whose real name is Riduan Isamuddin, had planned to make Thailand a base for terror operations, but his arrest — and three of his associates, since June — has uprooted his terror network, Jemaah Islamiyah, from the country, the Thai leader said.</p>

THE arrests of three Jemaah Islamiah members near Phnom Penh this week were sparked by the interrogation of a key Bali bomb planner. Asian intelligence sources said Wan Min Wan Mat, a Malaysian man in custody in Kuala Lumpur who provided Bali bomber Ali Ghufron with funding for the Kuta bombs, had indicated that many of those fleeing arrest in Singapore and Malaysia in 2001 had hidden in Cambodia. That information led to a surveillance operation on the Uum Al Qura organisation, which runs a large school and mosque about 30km north of Phnom Penh. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen...

KL nabs two JI membersKUALA LUMPUR -- Police have arrested a Malaysian air force official and a library security guard on suspicion that they are members of the Islamic terror group Jemaah Islamiah (JI), which has been blamed for the Oct 12 Bali bombings, police said on Saturday.The suspects are believed to belong to a JI cell that in the past has arranged accommodation and transport for new recruits traveling through Malaysia on their way to terrorist training camps in the southern Philippines. Both Malaysian, the two were detained in Sabah state on Borneo island, a senior police official said...

KUALA LUMPUR - The radicalisation of former Malaysian army officer Yazid Sufaat, suspected of abetting two Sept 11 hijackers and of being a Jemaah Islamiah bomb-maker, shows that Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's ambitious effort to use Islam as a vehicle for economic progress and social change has backfired, The Asian Wall Street Journal said in a report yesterday. It said that Yazid - the son of a poor rubber tapper and the winner of a government scholarship to study biochemistry in the US - was an 'ideal candidate for transformation into the progressive Muslim professional', a type of citizen that...

Sky divers leap from tall building 12/29/2002 Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Sky divers plunged off the world's tallest buildings Saturday to warm up for a competition held only rarely because the activity is banned in most countries. The sky divers, who will take part in a tournament scheduled to start Sunday, leaped from a balcony of the 1,483-foot Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur. Strong wind gusts blew many of the sky divers off course, pushing them away from the target circle on the ground - a situation that would cost them points when the competition starts....

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (Reuters) - China's growth is Asia's ray of hope as the world eyes a meltdown on Wall Street, warplanes over Iraq, a sluggish U.S. recovery and a Japanese government desperately seeking solutions to financial chaos. The World Economic Forum's conference on East Asia opened in Kuala Lumpur Sunday to worries over storm clouds building and little talk spent on recent forecasts of strong growth. Wall Street struck five-year lows last week, Japan's stock market is at levels unseen for 19 years and leading Asian corporates have ditched planned bond issues. "We have an extremely challenging international environment,...

GOTTA SEE THIS-War Endur.Freedom 9/30/02 Baku-Ceyhan,Jerusalem,Ramallah,Khan al-Sheeh,Yarmok,Palmyra,Tehran Baku-Ceyhan, Jerusalem, Ramallah, Khan al-Sheeh, Yarmok, Palmyra, Tehran, London, Scott Ritter, Havana, Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 9/30/02 - Baku-Ceyhan, Jerusalem, Ramallah, Khan al-Sheeh, Yarmok, Palmyra, Tehran BREAKING: Ceyhan, Turkey, Baku-Ceyhan pipeline, BREAKING: Turkey, weapons-grade uranium BREAKING: Jerusalem, Israel, Murderers of Americans face Court BREAKING: Ramallah, Terrorist exit through wall Sidon, Damascus, blood libel, Khan al-Sheeh, Yarmok, Palmyra, Baghdad, Cairo, Tehran, London, Scott Ritter Havana, Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya ========= Jerusalem, Israel ========= PERP ALERT: MURDERER OF AMERICANS WORKING FOR ARAFAT In Jerusalem, Israel, four Arab terrorists before...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 8/13/02 Kabul, Mahi Par, Kandahar, Ramallah, Jeddah, Baghdad, Iraq, Other specie update from Ayutthaya, Thailand, Kuala Lumpur, Puno, Peru, Phichit, Bangkok Morigaon, India, Glasgow, Scotland, Buenos Aires ==Kabul, Afghanistan == In Kabul, at the bodybuilding club. Weightlifters were freed by the USA and can now train without traditional Afghan clothing. Someone send this to Arnold. In Afghanistan, between Kabul and Jalalabad, Afghans guard Mahi Par, a road crucial to commerce. In Kabul, the Department for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice is back. The women of Afghanistan should have...