Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the deradicalisation techniques adopted by Malaysia in its fight against militants have been used in US-run detention facility on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

He said the US was using these techniques because Malaysia had been battling terrorism since 1948 during the communist insurgency.

Thi was followed by the rise of jihadists and other militants like the Malaysian Militant Group (KMM), Al-Qaeda and Al-Maunah.