"In Jakarta, I think he'll be quite welcome, " says oppositionist Syed Husin Ali, who has known Anwar for years.

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Malaysian Azahari Husin, alleged to be Jemaah Islamiah's top bomb-making expert and to have helped assemble the Bali bombs, was killed by police in eastern Indonesian in November 2005.

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" Syed Husin Ali, president of the opposition Malaysian People's Party, fears this could be the start of a wider campaign "to deny balanced - or even any - media coverage .

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Husin sees no conflict between Abdullah and Mathathir.

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The feeling that progress is being made was also boosted by the news on November 9th that Indonesian police had killed Azahari Husin, believed to have built the bombs that killed 202 people, including many Australians, in Bali in October 2002.

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