[Ynet] Two Singaporeans who the government says intended to travel to Syria to fight for ISIS have been detained under a colonial-era law that allows suspects to be held without trial.
Singapore has been on heightened vigilance since Indonesian police incarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! a group of men they believed were plotting a rocket attack on the wealthy city-state with the help of a Syrian-based ISIS Death Eater.
A major financial centre and the most westernised society in Southeast Asia, multi-ethnic Singapore is increasingly seen as a target for radicalised religious Death Eaters, authorities say.
Rosli bin Hamzah, a 50-year-old car washer, and Mohammed Omar bin Mahadi, a 33-year-old waste truck driver, received two-year detention orders this month, the Ministry of Home Affairs said in a statement.
Both had been radicalised, the ministry said, adding they were prepared to die as deaders in Syria.
Singapore, which has not suffered a Death Eater attack in decades, deploys extensive surveillance and is largely seen as one of the safest countries in the world. But some critics say security comes with a cost to civil liberties.
The Internal Security Act, under which the two were held, has been criticised by rights groups for allowing detention without trial.
Authorities have detained or repatriated dozens of people in the past year, most of them migrant Bangladeshi workers, for suspected links to Death Eater fund-raising or other "terrorism-related activities".
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[AnNahar] Indonesian security forces have rubbed out a suspected Uighur radical, an official said Thursday, the latest member of the mostly Moslem Chinese minority killed fighting with Lions of Islam in the archipelago.
Police said the man, who died in a shootout on a mountainside Wednesday, was the last of a handful of Uighurs who had joined Death Eater group the Eastern Indonesia Mujahideen on central Sulawesi island.
Several members of the minority, who allege decades of religious and political repression in China, had already been rubbed out by security forces while four others were caught on the island as they sought to join the group.
The group's leader Santoso was killed in a firefight with troops last month, ending a years-long hunt for the Moslem-majority country's most wanted bad boy and best known 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) group supporter.
National police chief Tito Karnavian announced the latest death Thursday, saying the bad boy "was killed in a shootout and we found an M16 (rifle) on him."
Another suspected bad boy escaped, he said.
Indonesian Lions of Islam fighting with IS in Syria are believed to have plotted with Death Eater networks back home to send Uighurs in Southeast Asia to Indonesia to join up with Santoso, according to analysts.
Santoso, whose group was known for launching attacks on domestic security forces from jungle bases around the city of Poso, was killed after authorities sent thousands of police and soldiers to track him down in a major operation.
Authorities are now hunting the remnants of his group, with just 14 members still believed to remain.
Indonesia suffered a string of Islamic Death Eater attacks in the early 2000s, including the 2002 Bali bombings which killed more than 200, prompting authorities to launch a crackdown that weakened the most dangerous networks.
However IS has proved a potent new rallying cry for the country's radicals, and analysts believe cells linked to the jihadists pose a greater threat than Santoso's dwindling band of bad boys.
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[Mindanao Examiner] Maoist militants are set to free two policemen they seized in southern Philippines ahead of a scheduled peace talks with the Philippe government this month.
Rebel spokesman Rubi Del Mundo said the National Democratic Front of the Philippines ordered Friday the release of 'prisoners of war' Arnold Ongachen and Michael Grande. Both cops were captured by the New People's Army in separate operations. He said the captives would be handed over to the government as soon as Manila suspend the ongoing security operations against the militants. He said the release is a gesture of goodwill for the formal resumption of the peace negotiations in Norway.
Del Mundo said, "The People's Democratic Government's judicial proceedings and investigations into POW Ongachen and POW Grande's possible war crimes and violation of people's rights have been effectively suspended in deference to appeals of their families and peace advocates. POW Ongachen and POW Grande have apologized for their violations against the people."
Del Mundo's statement coincided with the release Friday from prison of two top militant leaders – Benito and Wilma Tiamzon – who both face a series of criminal charges. They will join more than a dozen other rebel leaders released from jails who will take part in the peace talks.
Del Mundo accused the military and police of sabotaging the negotiations by filing false charges against the Tiamzon couple and the other rebel leaders. He said the Philippine government should immediately release all the remaining 540 political prisoners held in jails across the country.
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[UPI] The Abu Sayyaf released an elementary school teacher it had taken hostage in the Philippines. Adrina Bongil, a local school teacher, was released unharmed Thursday in the village of Dunag in Sulu province, and returned to relatives,
Bongil was debriefed by Philippine troops of Joint Task Force Sulu at the home of Kabir Elias Hayuduni, mayor of neighboring Patikul. She had been taken captive by five Abu Sayyaf gunmen on Tuesday while riding in a vehicle on her way to work at an elementary school.
Military spokesman Filemon Tan did not mention if a ransom, the usual motivation for Abu Sayyaf abductions, was paid.
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[Reuters] Police have identified a Thai man as a suspect in their investigation into attacks that killed four people and injured dozens in a series of bomb attacks in southern Thailand a week ago. Deputy national police spokesman Kissana Phatanacharoen identified the suspect as Ahama Lengha from Narathiwat province near the nation's border with Malaysia.
A Thai military court issued an arrest warrant on Tuesday for a then unidentified suspect for attempting to bomb a beach in the tourist island of Phuket.
Kissana said Ahama has not yet been taken into custody and it is not known if he was still in the country. He said, "We have only issued one arrest warrant in relation to the bomb attacks, and that is for Ahama. It's because it is clear that he is linked to what happened."
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the bombings, which came days after Thais voted to accept a military-backed constitution.
Police and the Thai government ruled out any link to foreign militants within hours of the attacks and insisted the perpetrators were home-grown. National police chief Jakthip Chaijinda said the attacks might be linked to the referendum but has not given further details.
0fficial suspicion has fallen on domestic political groups including supporters of ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was forced from office in 2006. While Thaksin's supporters have not been blamed outright, police said last week the attacks were carried out simultaneously by one group on the orders of one person, but gave no further details. Thaksin's lawyers have been instructed to file complaints against those accusing him of orchestrating the bombings.
Thai Defense Minister Prawit Wongsuwan said on Monday the attacks were "definitely not an extension" of the insurgency in the southern provinces that border Malaysia and where Malay-Muslim militants are fighting a bloody separatist war.
However, some security experts have noted that southern militant groups have a track record of carrying out coordinated attacks.
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[Mindanao Examiner] Maoist militants are set to free two policemen they seized in southern Philippines ahead of a scheduled peace talks with the Philippe government this month.
