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  • Another ISA Detention: 24 Year Old AETOS Officer Planned To Undertake Armed Violence In Syria

    Another ISA Detention: 24 Year Old AETOS Officer Planned To Undertake Armed Violence In Syria

    An auxiliary police officer who was deployed to Woodlands Checkpoint has been detained for planning to travel to Syria to take part in armed violence, while his colleague has been put under a restriction order for supporting him.

    Muhammad Khairul Mohamed, 24, an auxiliary police officer at the traffic enforcement division at Woodlands Checkpoint, was arrested in May and detained under the Internal Security Act, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said on Tuesday (Jun 20).

    He was deployed by AETOS, the second-largest of three licensed auxiliary police organisations in Singapore, to the checkpoint as an outrider. His duties did not require him to be armed, MHA said.

    Khairul became radicalised as early as 2012 – prior to joining AETOS in May 2015 – when he went online to gather more information about the conflict in Syria after reading about it on mainstream media.

    “He developed the view that the conflict in Syria was a sectarian struggle between Sunni Islam and Shia Islam, and being a Sunni Muslim, he wanted to fight against the Shi’ites in Syria by joining the Free Syrian Army,” the ministry said.

    The Free Syrian Army (FSA) is a group founded by defectors of the Syrian Armed Forces, whose aim is to use armed violence to overthrow the Syrian government led by President Bashar Al-Assad, who is backed by the minority Shia Alawite sect.

    Khairul perceived the Syrian conflict to be a holy war in which he was prepared to die in battle as a martyr and receive “divine rewards”, MHA said.

    In 2014, he tried to reach out to a foreign militant on Facebook, as well as two other individuals whom he believed to be FSA supporters, to find out how he could make his way to Syria.

    At the time of his arrest, Khairul was still interested in joining FSA or any other militant groups operating in Syria and engage in armed violence there, the ministry said.

    “His readiness and proclivity to resort to violence in pursuit of a religious cause makes him a security threat to Singapore,” it said.

    The ministry also reiterated that friends or relatives of a person who may be radicalised or intends to undertake acts of violence should report him to the authorities.

    In the case of Khairul, several relatives and friends knew of his intentions but none of them came forward, MHA said.

     

    Source: www.channenewsasia.com

  • Netizen: MHA Should Release Female Radical From ISA Detention, Counsel Her

    Netizen: MHA Should Release Female Radical From ISA Detention, Counsel Her

    I dont agree with the ARREST….she needed counselling and advise not arrest..

    she did not say she wants to bomb singapore…

    i hope MHA…reconsider her arrest and release her.

    BY THE WAY..ARW TGE PHOTO BELOW ..HER PHOTO ?

     

    Source: Mohammed Bashir Ismail Khan

  • Malaysians Join ISIS But End Up Cleaning Toilets

    Malaysians Join ISIS But End Up Cleaning Toilets

    A majority of the Malaysian militants, who had gone to Syria or Iraq to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis), never saw combat and ended up doing menial jobs, said Datuk Seri Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar.

    The deputy home minister said Isis had little use for the Malaysians as soldiers because they did not possess any military training and, therefore, no knowledge in handling weapons.

    “Without any fighting skills or combat experience, these Malaysians never really participated in the fight. They only do odd jobs based on what their commanders asked them to do.

    “So they became toilet cleaners or kitchen helpers.

    “Most of them were, therefore, not given weapons but the few who managed to get their hands on a weapon did fight and got killed or wounded and had to return home,” he told reporters yesterday.

    “But these toilet cleaners and kitchen helpers consider themselves militants and make efforts to become soldiers.

    “Their mind is set. Fight and kill. What they have is the spirit to fight.”

    He said because of their desire to fight and kill, they taught themselves by picking up military skills from other militants such as the making of bombs and improvised explosives.

    “Just imagine what damage they could do to the country with such skills.

    “They could do a lot of wonders by bombing entertainment outlets, churches and temples.”

    He said from intelligence gathered and shared with other intelligence services around the globe, some 96 Malaysians had gone to the Middle East hoping to fight for Isis.

    He said “six or seven” had been killed.

    Earlier reports stated six Malaysian had died as suicide bombers with a 26-year-old, who reportedly received his military training in Port Dickson, having the dubious honour of being Malaysia’s first Isis suicide bomber.

    Ahmad Tarmimi Maliki reportedly drove a military SUV filled with explosives into the Iraqi special weapons and tactics (SWAT) headquarters in al-Anbar in May last year, killing 25 elite Iraqi soldiers.

    Wan Junaidi said another 40 militants had been arrested on their return home and were now in detention.

    Despite the threat from the militants, the deputy home minister said the situation was “under control”.

    “We basically know most of them and are monitoring and keeping them under surveillance.”

    Wan Junaidi said when these militants returned, police would normally not arrest them immediately.

    He said they would be kept under constant surveillance and their activities monitored.

    “Police purposely allow them to go free.

    “We don’t just want to arrest one guy. We want their whole network, their contacts, and their sympathisers.”

     

    Source: www.themalaysianinsider.com

  • Malaysian Parliament Passes Controversial Prevention Of Terrorism Act (POTA)

    Malaysian Parliament Passes Controversial Prevention Of Terrorism Act (POTA)

    The controversial Prevention of Terrorism Act (Pota) Bill was finally passed after nearly 15 hours of debate with 79 votes for and 60 votes against in the Dewan Rakyat early this morning.

    The anti-terrorism law faced considerable opposition and criticism for containing a detention without trial provision, similar to the repealed Internal Security Act (ISA) and came after police arrested 17 suspected militants.

    Lawmakers said Parliament adjourned at 2.26am when the last motion to amend the Pota bill by Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng was defeated with 60 votes for and 79 votes against.

    A subsequent motion to the refer the bill to the full house of the Parliament was passed 79 to 60 while a third reading of the proposed law was also passed 79 to 60.

    The Dewan Rakyat had earlier stopped its clocks before midnight last night to enable the committee stage of the Pota debate to continue since noon yesterday.

    The motion to stop the clock was tabled by the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim and seconded by the Works Deputy Minister Datuk Rosnah Shirlin.

    The Home Minister yesterday said the anti-terror act was nothing like the scrapped ISA.

    Deputy Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Wan Jaafar said there were certain provisions in the Pota that differed from the ISA, including its executive powers and power of detention.

    Putrajaya tabled the anti-terror bill last Monday, which empowered authorities to detain terrorist suspects without trial and disallowed judicial reviews on such decisions by a Prevention of Terrorism Board.

    Under the proposed law, suspects can be first detained a maximum of 59 days (including the initial remand period), before being brought to the board, which can then order further detention of up to two years.

    Following this, the detention period can be renewed if the board decides there are reasonable grounds. It can also direct a person to be set free if it deemed necessary.

    The bill does not allow any judicial review in any court, noting that no court shall have jurisdiction over decisions by the board in its discretionary power.

    Critics including Kuala Terengganu MP Datuk Raja Kamarul Bahrin Shah Raja Ahmad and Kelana Jaya MP Wong Chen had raised concerns over the new law, saying that it was just a “reincarnation” of the ISA. – April 7, 2015.

     

    Source: www.themalaysianinsider.com