Another JI terror suspect detained
The police have detained another suspected member of an al-Qaeda-linked regional terror group blamed for the Bali bombing last October.
Mohamad Amin Musa, 29, was picked up on Sunday in southern Johor state and was being held under the country's Internal Security Act as a Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) suspect, a police spokesman told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"Police are investigating his role in JI, and what he knows as well as his links to the top JI leaders who are still on the run," he said, adding that eight Malaysian members of JI remained on the police's most wanted list.
The police have detained another suspected member of an al-Qaeda-linked regional terror group blamed for the Bali bombing last October.
Mohamad Amin Musa, 29, was picked up on Sunday in southern Johor state and was being held under the country's Internal Security Act as a Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) suspect, a police spokesman told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"Police are investigating his role in JI, and what he knows as well as his links to the top JI leaders who are still on the run," he said, adding that eight Malaysian members of JI remained on the police's most wanted list.
Most wanted
The organisation aims to create a regional Islamic state and is blamed for last year's Bali bombing in neighbouring Indonesia which killed more than 200 people, mostly Western tourists.
Members of JI's senior leadership including Southeast Asia's most wanted man, Muslim cleric Riduan Isamuddin alias Hambali, are believed to have close links to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.
Malaysia is already holding more than 80 suspected Islamic militants under security legislation which permits indefinite detention without trial. AFP
