Malaysian POLICE have arrested seven of 20 individuals believed to be members of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) group. The arrests of members of radical and terrorist organizations occurred following an assault by considered one of their members on a police station on the outskirts of Johor Bahru within the early hours of Friday (17/5).
The assault on the Ulu Tiram Police Station, carried out by JI members at round 02.30 native time, killed two law enforcement officials and left one particular person injured. The perpetrator died in a shootout.
The suburban city of Ulu Tiram is positioned regarding 20 km from Johor Bahru. This space is near Mount Austin, a preferred procuring vacation spot for Singaporeans.
Talking at a press convention exterior the police publish, Malaysian Police Inspector Normal Razarudin Husain mentioned the suspect, a 21-year-old man, entered the police publish carrying a machete. He attacked a police officer close to the station entrance to take his gun.
A shootout then broke out within the station’s automotive parking space between the suspect and law enforcement officials, ensuing within the dying of one other officer, Razarudin added. The suspect was additionally shot useless on this shootout.
He mentioned law enforcement officials then searched the suspect’s home and located proof that he was a JI member. “We additionally discovered that the suspect was making preparations, the bag he was utilizing was coated with zinc (sheet) and different supplies in order that it might possibly be used as a protect throughout a shootout with the police,” mentioned Razarudin.
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“So from what we noticed, this particular person got here to the police publish to take weapons for his agenda, the aim of which we do not but know. “I’ve instructed the Particular Department to determine all JI members in Johor to be summoned for questioning,” he added.
When requested in regards to the motive for the assault, Razarudin mentioned the perpetrator was attempting to get a police weapon. “However we’ve to analyze additional,” he mentioned.
Razarudin defined that greater than 20 individuals believed to be linked to JI have been being tracked down for questioning. He added that the 5 members of the suspect’s household, aged between 19 and 62, had been arrested, and his 62-year-old father was identified to be a JI member.
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Razarudin added that safety had been elevated at police stations, the state palace and the official residence of Johor’s chief minister. The our bodies of the 2 law enforcement officials and the suspect have been taken to Sultan Ismail Hospital for post-mortem and additional examination. The injured officer has additionally been taken to the identical hospital for therapy.
Jemaah Islamiyah is linked to Al Qaeda, the fear group that launched assaults in america in 2001. JI is liable for a few of Indonesia’s deadliest terror assaults, together with the 2002 Bali bombings that killed greater than 200 individuals.
JI religious chief Abu Bakar Bashir established a non secular faculty or madrasah in Ulu Tiram referred to as Luqmanul Hakiem within the early Nineteen Nineties, based on numerous studies.
The college was attended by Noordin Muhammad High, the suspected mastermind of the 2009 Jakarta lodge bombing, in addition to one other JI militant Mukhlas who was a part of the 2002 Bali bombing.
(CNA/Z-9)
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