AN e-mail message was sent from Singapore to Detroit in the United States on Wednesday last week. All of them will arrive on the same flight, read the message.

Two days later, the sender of the message, Ibrahim Amran, 46, landed at Honolulu Airport together with three business colleagues: David Beecroft, Ignatius Igna Ferdinandus Soeharli and Hadianto Djoko Djuliarso. Amran, Ignatius and Hadianto are Indonesian businesspeople. They then headed off