Man Suspected Of Having Links With ISIS Nabbed By Cops At Jelatek LRT Station
Weapons and documents were also seized by counter-terrorism unit.
By Sadho Ram — 16 Jan 2016, 02:58 PM
Former insurance agent was planning to attack on Entertainment Outlets in Malaysia
The man arrested on suspicion of links to militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) at a train station in Kuala Lumpur yesterday was a 27-year-old former insurance agent who was planning to stage a lone-wolf attack on an entertainment outlet, police sources said.
He had travelled 451km from the east coast state of Terengganu to Kuala Lumpur with instructions to carry out the attack at a popular entertainment outlet in the capital city.
The attack was to have been executed about 10pm yesterday, the sources added.
themalaysianinsider.com
A man suspected of having links to the Islamic State (ISIS) was detained by Malaysian police at the LRT station in Jelatik, yesterday, 15 January, IGP Khalid announced on Twitter, congratulating the Special Branch Unit that handled the operation
Syabas E8 CK @pdrm semlm tkap 1 (L) disyaki elemen IS di LRT Jelatik, Ampg. Senjata dan dokumen IS dirampas. #GoPDRMGo
— Khalid Abu Bakar (@KBAB51) January 15, 2016
Khalid said a weapon and an "ISIS document" were also seized.
The arrest comes in the wake of news that two Malaysians were the suicide bombers who killed 33 people separately in Syria and Iraq.
According to a news report on Monday, two Malaysians blew themselves up causing the death of more than 30 people in Syria and Iraq in two incidents last week.
Mohd Amirul Ahmad Rahim, 26, who hailed from Terengganu, triggered a bomb strapped to himself in a car during a battle at the Isis terrorist stronghold at Raqqa, Syria on December 29, the report said.
Mohamad Syazwan Mohd Salim, 31, who carried out the mission on January 3, was one of seven suicide bombers to infiltrate a police training centre at the Speicher military base, about 160km north of Baghdad, Iraq.
themalaysianinsider.com
Blood stains the ground near a restaurant after a suicide attack in Kurdish-controlled Qamishli in northeastern Syria last December, blamed on the militant Isis. Malaysia today confirmed that two Malaysians were involved in separate suicide attacks on behalf of Isis in Syria and Iraq.
Image via ReutersMeanwhile, following the terror attack in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, Khalid had announced that Malaysia was now on "alert to the highest degree" as terrorism analysts said ISIS was now spreading its operations beyond the Middle East and Europe to Asia
Police have heightened security measures after a suicide bomb attack at a Jakarta shopping mall earlier this week. Extra security measures have been put in place at shopping malls, tourist areas and at the borders.