Jakarta bomings: Malaysia questions 3 JI sympathizers
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Malaysian police are questioning three detained supporters of Southeast Asia’s most-wanted Muslim militant as part of a probe into last week’s hotel bomb blasts in the Indonesian capital, a minister said Tuesday.
Police intelligence has determined that Noordin Mohammad Top, a Malaysian, is not in the country, but police were watching the movement of his supporters, Home Affairs Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said.
“We are monitoring them. In fact, we detained three of them just before the bombing in Jakarta. They are helping us in the investigation,” the minister told reporters.
The three men are all Malaysians and suspected members of the Jemaah Islamiyah regional terror group, he said. He didn’t give details, but police earlier this month said they had arrested three suspected JI members in southern Johor state on June 25.
Indonesian authorities are hunting for Noordin, who has been linked to four earlier attacks in Indonesia since 2002. He leads a JI offshoot, Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad, which he reportedly called the “al-Qaida for the Malay archipelago.” Its aim is to create a common Muslim state in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines.
The places where this guy is precisely helps him stay away from raids. As he is not the terrorist carrying on the massacre, it is going to be somewhat difficult to catch him.
Tags Technorati: Jakarta bombings, Malaysia, Jemaah Islamiyah, Islamic terror, Islamism, Islamism, Hishammuddin Hussein, Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad
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