The meeting I recall best was held in 1998 when at least four Al Qaeda members were tracked there. As I recall, based on intell info the U.S. Embassy protested their presence, but nothing happened because Mathatir, a capitalist by proclivity, is an Islamist at heart. He counts among his close friends the Islamists Hasan al-Turabi of Sudan and Rashid Ghannouchi of Tunisia. Although the Bin Ladens were running suspect shrimp operations in Malaysia, he continued to offer the welcome mat to the family.
Thanks for the info. Most of the criminals in Malaysia are the illegal Indonesians, and they tend to stay in the outer suburbs. Mahathir was an a$$hole, unless you were doing business there....then he was a pro-business a$$hole:)