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Strait: Target for terror By Ioannis Gatsiounis KUALA LUMPUR - While it benefits some parties to talk up the threat of terror - whether to gain a contract or a foothold in a foreign land - the Singaporean, Malaysian and Indonesian governments, burdened with monitoring the world's busiest strait, would like nothing more than to prove to the world that everything's under control. Indeed, with 600 vessels and 11 million barrels of oil passing through the Malacca Strait each day, everything has to be under control. So it followed that on July 20, in conjunction with the three countries'...