OUR newsroom was abuzz when someone gave us a tip-off that weapons had been stolen from an army camp in Perak.
It was July 2, 2000. I was a crime reporter, fresh out of school, and had just come back from Sabah several weeks earlier after covering the Sipadan hostage crisis in which Abu Sayyaf abducted 21 people from an island resort.
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