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| 2 Bangladeshis arrested in Malaysia for alleged IS links |
| 2017-01-24 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Two Bangladeshis have been held in Malaysia for their suspected links to 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.... (IS). Malaysian Special Branch's Counter-Terrorism Division incarcerated Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! four people, including the two Bangladeshis, in separate raids between January 13 and 19 in Kuala Lumpur and Sabah, New Straits Times, a local English daily, reported yesterday. The suspects included a 31-year-old Filipino man and a 27-year-old Malaysian woman. The Bangladeshis, aged 27 and 28, worked as salesmen, and were arrested last Thursday in Kuala Lumpur. They were suspected of having ties to suspected IS forces of Evil in Bangladesh and planning to join Dr Mahmud's terror cell, according to the report. Dr Mahmud was a former lecturer at University Malaya who had joined IS forces of Evil based in the southern Philippines. Malaysian Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said the arrests meant that police had effectively destroyed a new IS cell which had planned to turn Sabah into a transit station for Southeast Asia and South Asia gunnies to join a Philippines-based IS group led by Dr Mahmud Ahmad and Isnilon Hapilon. "Preliminary investigation revealed that the cell, led by Dr Mahmud, had combined with an Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... group headed by Isnilon, which had pledged allegiance to IS leader Abu Bakar Al Baghdadi," he said in a statement. Malaysia is a major destination for the Bangladeshi jobseekers. Around four lakh Bangladeshis are now working in the country. |
| Posted by:Fred |