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Terror Networks
Malays round up 14 Jemaah Islamiyah thugs
2002-04-18
  • Malaysian police have arrested 14 suspected members of Jemaah Islamiyah in raids that turned up a map of the country's largest port. Among the arrested was the wife of a Malaysian accused of helping two of the Sept. 11 hijackers. Police Inspector Gen. Norian Mai told local journalists that investigators were "confident that we have crushed this group's main plan" but would not say if that included a plot to sabotage Port Klang, Malaysia's key western harbor. The arrested - including two Indonesians - were detained in separate raids Wednesday and early Thursday. Police seized documents including military training notes and a map of Port Klang. More arrests were expected because police believed there were about 100 suspected militants still on the loose. The arrests bring to 38 the number of people detained in Malaysia since authorities began a crackdown on alleged Muslim militants last December.
    It looks like Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore got to these thugs before they got their operation all the way off the ground. Indonesia is much more lackadaisical, and the seed will probably take root there, to the detriment of the countries around her.
    Among the latest detainees was Sejahratul Dursina, who is married to Yazid Sufaat, a former Malaysian army captain jailed since December on allegations he let members of the al-Qaida terrorist organization stay in an apartment the couple own in 2000. Yazid and most of the others are accused of belonging to an Islamic extremist group that authorities say plotted bomb attacks on the U.S. Embassy and other pro-West targets in Singapore. Other suspects have been detained in Singapore and the Philippines. Yazid denies the allegations.
    Yazid was cooperating for awhile.
    Police seized a laptop computer, notebooks and a mobile phone from Sejahratul's house, her sister, Surihanim Mohamad, told The Associated Press.
    Didja ever notice how many of these inernational terror cartels are family affairs? Samir al-Hada, the fellow who fumbled his grenade in Yemen a couple months ago, was kin to one of he 9-11 hijackers, and I think Pop was in the business, too. Do you ever wonder about Binny's brothers and sisters?
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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