| The Singapore government has released two of 15 suspected terrorists arrested last month, but the remaining 13 will be detained for two years under the Internal Security Act. The 13 men are members of the clandestine organization JI, and eight are confirmed to have gone to Afghanistan for training in al Qaida terrorist training camps. Before leaving for Afghanistan, members of JI conducted religious studies and physical training in Malaysia. The ministry claimed the local JI organization is part of a larger JI network with cells in Malaysia and Indonesia. Officials said the group was part of a larger organization called a "shura," which is headed by Hambali Nurjaman Riduan Isamuddin, who is wanted by the Indonesian and Malaysian authorities. The two persons released were not members of JI, but they had donated funds they had collected to the Philippine Moro Islamic Liberation Front purportedly for its welfare organizations. The original UPI article has a good discussion of the structure of the terror network: the "shura" (council) is made up of regional-level organizations like Jamaat Islami, which in turn contain functional arms - "fiahs." The fiahs are made up of a number of cells, consisting of 3 - 5 members each. |