U.S. prosecutors have linked the prime minister of Malaysia, a key American ally in Asia, to hundreds of millions of dollars allegedly siphoned from one of the country's economic development funds, according to a civil lawsuit seeking the seizure of more than $1 billion of assets from other people connected to him.
The move sets up a rare confrontation between U.S. prosecutors and an important partner in the fight against terrorism. The moderate Muslim nation is also a counterpoint to China's rising ambitions in Asia.
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[Mindanao Examiner] Philippine marines raided a suspected Abu Sayyaf hideout on Thursday and captured three people and three speedboats in a daring operation near the Sabah border in the southern Philippine province of Tawi-Tawi. A shotgun and ammunition were also taken from the men, who are being interrogated to determine if they were involved in cross-border kidnappings.
The capture of the trio coincided with the arrest late Thursday afternoon of an Abu Sayyaf militant – Bads Adjam, alias Abu Jihad – in Zamboanga City. Adjam has been linked to the 2002 kidnappings of six Jehovah’s Witnesses in Patikul town in Sulu province and 21 mostly European holidaymakers in Sipadan Island off Sabah in 2000.
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[Rappler] Following the death of Indonesia's most wanted terrorist, a expert on terrorism warned that members of his network may join the Abu Sayyaf. On Tuesday, Indonesian police said one of the two men they killed in a gunfight was Santoso, alias Abu Wardah, who has been called the "symbolic heart of the jihadi movement."
While the news was welcome, terrorism expert Al Chaidar warned this could mean Mujahidin Indonesia Timur (MIT or East Indonesia Mujahideen) militants may choose to go to the Philippines. He said they could opt to join the Abu Sayyaf now that Indonesian police are familiar with their whereabouts in the jungles of Poso.
He said, "Like the MIT, Abu Sayyaf is also based in one place. Both share the same nature. Thus the remaining MIT followers may go to Abu Sayyaf, if they manage to get out of Poso."
The MIT came to the attention of authorities when they killed two police officers in 2011. It engaged in more deadly attacks against security forces in the following years and, as Santoso's reputation grew among jihadis, militants flocked to the training camps.
MIT has pledged allegiance to Daesh, as has the Abu Sayyaf.
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[Bangkok Post] A passenger van driver was found hanged in a police cell on Tuesday, three days after he was detained for "innocently" delivering a parcel bomb to a defense volunteer unit. Somjit Jara-ae had been held at an interrogation center in Yala since last Saturday night. He was found dead with a shower hose around his neck in a sitting position near the door of his cell late on Tuesday night, Dusadee Chusangkit, chief investigator for the Southern Border Provinces Police Operations Center , told a press briefing in Yala province.
Did he also tie his hands behind his back?
Somjit, from Songkhla province, was detained after the supervisor at the van terminal where he worked gave him a parcel to deliver to a local unit of defense volunteers on July 5. The package was addressed to the unit. Authorities later discovered it contained a bomb inside a metal box, and safely defused the explosive.
Somjit told interrogators he did not know what was inside the parcel, or who sent it. He just followed his supervisor's order to deliver it.
Dusadee said that Somjit committed suicide due to stress after his son visited him on Tuesday and they had an argument. The family did not dispute the cause of the death, and so no autopsy was performed, Dusadee said.
Yala police commander Itthiphol Achariyapradit said Somjit had provided useful information and more people would be investigated.
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[Mindanao Examiner] Philippine marines raided a suspected Abu Sayyaf hideout on Thursday and captured three people and three speedboats in a daring operation near the Sabah border in the southern Philippine province of Tawi-Tawi. A shotgun and ammunition were also taken from the men, who are being interrogated to determine if they were involved in cross-border kidnappings.
[Rappler] Following the death of Indonesia's most wanted terrorist, a expert on terrorism warned that members of his network may join the Abu Sayyaf. On Tuesday, Indonesian police said one of the two men they killed in a gunfight was Santoso, alias Abu Wardah, who has been called the "symbolic heart of the jihadi movement."
[Bangkok Post] A passenger van driver was found hanged in a police cell on Tuesday, three days after he was detained for "innocently" delivering a parcel bomb to a defense volunteer unit. Somjit Jara-ae had been held at an interrogation center in Yala since last Saturday night. He was found dead with a shower hose around his neck in a sitting position near the door of his cell late on Tuesday night, Dusadee Chusangkit, chief investigator for the Southern Border Provinces Police Operations Center , told a press briefing in Yala province. 
