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...senior Philippine security official has told TIME that after the arrest of militant Abdullah Sunata on July 2 in Indonesia, the authorities recovered e-mails between Sunata and Umar Patek, a fellow Indonesian and suspected bombmaker; in them, Patek allegedly asked for two recruits to be sent to the southern Philippines for training as suicide bombers, and also requested help in raising money for a bombing campaign in Manila and the southern Philippine island of Mindanao...
...this has a cumulative effect on Asia. So far, the threat of radical Islam in the region is confined to Indonesia and the Philippines. (In southern Thailand, the issue, for now, is Muslim disaffection with the central government in Bangkok.) Through decisive action?arrests and effective gathering and sharing of intelligence?the Malaysian and Singaporean governments have dismantled the terrorist infrastructures in their countries. But the extremists can use Indonesia and the Philippines as launchpads to strike at neighboring nations...
...ABORTION While president of the Texas Bar Association, Miers joined a debate in the early 1990s within the American Bar Association over whether the A.B.A. should take a stand on abortion. The group had gone from neutral to pro-choice and back again. Miers, joined by other Southern state bar associations, pushed the A.B.A. to remain neutral, but she never stated her underlying position on abortion...
...Miers' case, being in the right place meant being a Texan who crossed paths with George W. Bush at a gala dinner in 1989 and eventually turned to follow him. A math major at Southern Methodist University (she was one year ahead of Laura Bush at S.M.U.), she dreamed of being a doctor but didn't think she was smart enough and didn't encounter enough people to tell her otherwise. Her turn toward the law had a very personal trigger: it was a lawyer who helped her family navigate the challenges of her father's shattering stroke...
...students were quick to defend the university, which has drawn criticism lately for being a racist Southern institution in light of the incidents...