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| Southeast Asia |
| Terror bombing plot foiled |
| 2010-06-18 |
| [Straits Times] ISLAMIC extremists led by a deported Syrian scholar with suspected ties to Al-Qaeda were planning to blow up houses of worship in Malaysia, a government-linked newspaper reported on Thursday. The New Straits Times said Aiman Al Dakak, 45, was among nine foreigners including Syrians, Yemenis, Nigerians and a Jordanian deported in April, most of them students. According to previous Malaysian reports, 10 foreign terror suspects had been deported. Police and home ministry officials had no immediate comment on the latest report. The NST did not specify which 'houses of worship' were allegedly targeted by the group but said they were located in the states of Penang and Selangor. The foreigners and their local associates felt that Malaysia, which is 60 per cent Muslim, was losing its identity as an Islamic country, the report said. It said Aiman was also trying to revive the Southeast Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) by attracting new members from Malaysian universities. The paper reported that Aiman, who is fluent in Arabic and English, gave lectures to both local and foreign students at his home, indoctrinating them with jihadist ideology and urging them to carry out the bombings. |
| Posted by:Fred |