Rela member, navy man arrested in latest counter terrorism move by police

http://ift.tt/1pB1Dns Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar in a statement today said the Rela member, aged 46, was arrested on June 25 in Kuala Kangsar. Police seized a home-made rifle and 433 live bullets from him. Khalid said police suspected that the Rela member aided the militant group which underwent combat training at Gunung Ara Para, Kampung Nyior Ketior in December last year by producing and supplying home-made rifles to them. On the navy officer, Khalid said, the 29-year-old was detained yesterday for helping a member of a militant group based in southern Philippines to get into Sabah. He was believed to help the suspect to enter the country illegally on June 11. A police source said the two suspects detained belonged to the same cell which had been linked earlier to a rebel group called the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in the Middle East and the Al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf in southern Philippines. The IGP's statement also said that police raided a "safe house" in Shah Alam today. The property was allegedly used as a meeting point by the militant group's members. The latest arrests brings the number of those arrested from the group to 19. On June 18, police arrested a suspected weapons handler for the group which had been planning to carry out suicide bombings and attacks in Syria and Iraq. Bukit Aman’s Special Branch Counter Terrorism Division arrested the 25-year-old man in an operation at a house in Kampung Kelebor, Kuala Kangsar, at about 2pm. They seized a home-made rifle and 48 bullets from the man. The police team previously arrested 15 people linked to ISIS. The weapon seized was believed to be used by the militant group for training purposes. Initial investigations revealed that the militant group was training their members at Gunung Arang Para in Kampung Nyior Ketior, Kuala Kangsar. All suspects are currently detained under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012. It is learnt that the grounds at Gunung Arang Para was used for two days last December by at least 10 militant members for weapons training. Other than Kuala Kangsar, the group also used a training site in Port Dickson. The more militant groups are discovered all over the country, the higher the probability that there could be more training sites yet to be uncovered by the authorities. It is learnt that the militants also trained in southern Philippines and made their way to Sabah and later planned to fly to Syria and Iraq, where ISIS was carrying out persistent attacks to topple the existing regimes. The militant group’s plan was to go to Syria and launch attacks before heading to Iraq for their “end game”. The Counter Terrorism Division has been rounding up members of the militant group since April 28.



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