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In sum, although the evidence is thin as to specific motivations, our overall impression is that soon after arriving in California, Hazmi and Mihdhar sought out and found a group of young and ideologically like-minded Muslims with roots in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, individuals mainly associated with Mohdar Abdullah and the Rabat mosque.
These characters meet occasionally, but they all hammer out their motivations, allegiances and enmities in private: on long walks, doodling in the office, vegetating in bed, sitting at the kitchen table getting drunk alone.
As Akira Kurosawa could have told us, the beginning and end of the story are not enough: We need to know the motivations and behavior in between.
Back to that Post lead for a moment: it features something "Today's Papers" applauds and would like to see more of: a clear explanation of the motivations of the story's unidentified sources: "officials who regarded the abandoned leads as the most promising in years and objected to what they described as the American role in squelching them."
But human rights groups in Malaysia and abroad see other motivations at work: A vocal supporter of the embattled ex-Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, Chandra has "frequently criticized the abuses of power by the authorities," writes one Malaysian group.