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"Next year, any foreign worker without the new identity card will be jailed and whipped. It is best to leave now."
DATUK AZMI KHALID, Malaysia's Home Affairs Minister, on the country's national ID-card project, which is an effort to crack down on the estimated 1.5 million foreigners working illegally in Malaysia

"Now the father is dead and everyone in the family has the right to express his own views."
MOENIS ABU IMRAN, shopkeeper in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on Yasser Arafat's death and the upcoming Palestinian election

"I'm thinking it's a long time since I've been in war."
PAUL DUNLAP, 53-year-old Vietnam War veteran and sergeant in the U.S. National Guard, on being called up recently for active service in Iraq

"Every hundred years there have been three or four pandemics and there's no reason to believe we will be spared."
DR. KLAUS STOHR, head of the World Health Organization's Global Influenza Programme, on the possibility that the avian-flu virus, which has killed 32 people in Thailand and Vietnam so far this year, could lead to a worldwide outbreak

"If we are not recompensed, other countries will not follow our example."
MUAMMAR GADDAFI, leader of Libya, on how his country had not been adequately rewarded for pledging to renounce its weapons programs and how that might affect Iran's and North Korea's decisions to follow suit

"It isn't a very good reflection on the state of this country."
OZZY OSBOURNE, British rock legend and reality-TV star, on being robbed of an estimated $3.8 million worth of jewelry while he and his wife, Sharon, were in England