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...still-beautiful colors - greens, reds and pastels against vivid blue skies - have been painstakingly cleaned with small poultices of Japanese paper impregnated with a solution of ammonium carbonate. Areas where the paint had fallen, due to humidity or previous restorations, have been filled in with fine hatching: parallel brush strokes in watercolor. The team re-covered the rusting heads of nails used in the late 19th century to anchor plaster to the wall. They removed old fixatives and fillings of unsuitable materials such as cement. They corrected previous attempts at retouching where color had altered or fallen...
...arrested on Aug. 1, 2001, after a bomb he was carrying exploded and blew off one of his legs. Last fall in Malaysia itself, Hambali instructed Yazid Sufaat, a former Malaysian army captain now under detention in Kuala Lumpur, to place an order for four tons of ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer that can be used as a bombmaking ingredient. The current whereabouts of the chemical remains a mystery...
...Jemaah Islamiah's reach extends far beyond just Malaysia. In December, Singaporean police arrested 13 alleged members of the Jemaah Islamiah and uncovered detailed plans to bomb U.S. targets in the city-state. In addition to the scheme involving the missing tons of ammonium nitrate that were destined for Singapore, police there have unearthed another Jemaah Islamiah plot to order a further nine tons of the chemical. (For comparison, the devastating Oklahoma City bombing required only one ton of ammonium nitrate...
...foreigners?one an Arab al-Qaeda member and the other an alleged bomb expert from the Philippine Moro Islamic Liberation Front?arrived in Singapore in September or October to direct the preparations. The two men, known as Sammy and Mike, told their local contacts they needed 21 tons of ammonium nitrate and warehouse space for the construction of several truck bombs. One of the arrested Singaporeans allegedly attempted to buy 17 tons of ammonium nitrate. (The group supposedly already had four tons stored away across the border in Malaysia.) But local police had already gotten the video and other materials...
...government has beefed up the police force. A dragnet has nabbed some bombers. In the northeastern city of Shijiazhuang, law-enforcement officials put to death a laid-off worker who set off explosions that killed 108 people last March. But they also executed a woman who had unwittingly sold ammonium nitrate to the bomber. Her crime: peddling unlicensed fertilizer. Between deranged bombers and a ham-fisted official quest for social stability, Chinese are more at risk than ever before...