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Sunday, March 07, 2004
Malaysia detains 6 Indon terror suspects from suspected training in Phils. (1:30 p.m.)
KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysia ordered six Indonesian terror suspects detained for two years after they were captured returning from a training camp in the Philippines, a senior security official said Sunday.
The suspects are believed to be members of the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) that carried out the Bali bombings in 2002 which killed more than 200 people, the official said.
They were caught among a group of illegal immigrants trying to enter the eastern Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo island several weeks ago but their arrest had not been announced, the official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Borneo is shared by Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei and the men were trying to make their way back to Indonesia after attending training in Mindanao, where the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is fighting a separatist rebellion, he said.
They have been served with two year detention orders under Malaysia's Internal Security Act, which allows indefinite detention without trial.
Some 90 alleged Islamic militants, many of them suspected JI members, are already held in Malaysia and human rights groups regularly press the government to bring them to trial or set them free. AFP |
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