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| Malaysia Detains 17 Suspected in Terror Plots | |
| 2015-04-07 | |
[VOA News] Malaysian authorities have tossed in the calaboosePlease don't kill me! 17 people, including two who had recently returned from Syria, for allegedly plotting terror attacks in the capital, Kuala Lumpur. Police Chief Khalid Abu Bakar said in a Twitter message Monday that the 17 were arrested Sunday. He gave no further information, saying a statement would be issued later. The arrests come after the Home Ministry proposed two new anti-terror laws last week that will reintroduce indefinite detention without trial and allow the seizure of passports of anyone suspected of supporting terror acts. Critics say the move is a revival of a controversial security law that was repealed in 2012, and warned the new law could be used to severely limit civil liberties. Malaysian authorities have arrested scores of citizens since the start of last year for allegedly being supporters of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... myrmidon group.
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! a total of 120 people with suspected IS links or sympathies, or who were detained as they sought to travel to Syria or Iraq. They also said 67 Malaysians were known at the time to have gone to abroad to join IS, and that five had died fighting in the group's jihad. | |
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