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2021-03-27 Southeast Asia
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Malaysian Police: Foiled IS Sympathizer’s Plot to Kill PM Mahathir Last Year
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[BenarNews] A senior Malaysian police official revealed on Thursday that his agency had foiled an ISIS sympathizer’s plot to kill then-Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad in January 2020.
Police discovered the plot when they arrested Wan Amirul Azlan bin Jalaluddin, the suspected leader of a group called Anshorullah At-Tauhid, on Jan. 6 last year, Azman Omar, the assistant director of counter-terrorism at Special Branch, said during a roundtable discussion in Kuala Lumpur on Islamic extremism.
”No shit, guys, there I was thinking I was picking the guy up for littering — like Alice’s Restaurant, donchaknow — and it turns out they were planning blood and guts and gore and veins in their teeth! Bog standard inshallah plotting, too. Thank Allah most of ‘em go in for faith instead of brains, or we’d be wading through rivers of blood.” "During interrogation, Wan Amirul admitted that he intended to launch attacks against several government leaders by stabbing them with knives or sharp object as a sign of support for ISIS," Azman said, using another name for the terror group known as Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
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, or IS.
“The plan was that Allah would will them knives or broken bottles or something, and then Allah would will them past the police and bodyguards to stick the sharp thing into someone important... Enough brains between them to fill a teacup, I swear.” According to Azman, those targeted officials were Mahathir and three other members of his Pakatan Harapan government: Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng; Attorney-General Tommy Thomas; and Mujahid Yusuf Rawa, minister in charge of religious affairs.
IS’s last bastion in Syria fell in March 2019, and its then leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, died during a raid by U.S. Special Forces in October that year.
His death reduced IS’s influence and — coupled with strict controls on the Syrian border — foiled the group’s new recruitment efforts in Malaysia, Azman said at the discussion. The International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies Malaysia organized the forum, titled "Islam, Radicalism & Extremism in the Age of Pandemic."
"The death of Wanndy Jedi and other major characters also broke the spirit of ISIS in Malaysia," he added.
IS member Muhammad Wanndy Mohamad Jedi was on a U.S. government list of global turbans, and was the alleged criminal mastermind of a grenade attack on a bar near Kuala Lumpur that injured eight people in June 2016. Police announced in May 2017 that he had been killed in Syria.
Azman also said there were currently 56 Malaysians in Syria, including 19 men, 12 women and 25 children.
Senior police sources, who did not want to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue, told BenarNews that Wan Amirul had worked as a masseur and was arrested in Perak state after his group uploaded video threats against the four government leaders on WhatsApp, the sources said.
“Ok, it wasn’t really littering, but once they post a video we have to get them out of circulation. And Mahmoud the Weasel knew where they hung out when they were plotting.” Along with Wan Amirul, police arrested five other Anshorullah At-Tauhid suspects, including an Indonesian national, the police sources said. ”It was the usual thing: five of ‘em had gone to school together — two sets of brothers — and one was a cousin visiting from Indonesia.” All six suspects were arrested under Malaysia’s counterterrorism act, SOSMA, the sources said.
Wan Amirul was tried and sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted of engaging in terrorism-related offenses, the sources said, without mentioning dates.
A security source told BenarNews separately that two of the other five suspects were also convicted and sentenced to "between 3 and 4 years in prison" for possessing items related to terrorism,
...the usual videos and a collection of broken bottles because their mothers wouldn’t let them take the kitchen knives... and three were let go because of insufficient evidence.
They were holding the beers while the other three practiced breaking bottles and stabbing each other with the result — sometimes the stabbers didn’t miss their targets completely... The security source said Anshorullah At-Tauhid was a very small group,
| ...so small it didn’t turn up in a search of the Rantburg archives, at least not under that spelling... |
with "no connections whatsoever" to Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), a Southeast Asian turban network affiliated with al-Qaeda.
Responding to the revelation by the deputy police counter-terrorism chief, Pakatan Harapan, the coalition that Mahathir led, criticized Muhyiddin Yassin, the then-home minister and current prime minister, for not informing the cabinet about the liquidation plot.
"[W]e urge Muhyiddin to provide an explanation on this matter immediately," Pakatan, which is now in the opposition, said in a statement posted on Facebook.
JI IN MALAYSIA
JI is a Southeast Asian turban group that authorities in Indonesia say carried out the country’s deadliest terrorist attack to date — twin bombings that killed 202 people in Bali in October 2002 — and helped plan the 2003 bombing of the J.W. Marriott hotel in Jakarta that left 12 dead.
At the roundtable discussion, the Special Branch’s Azman denied claims by police in the state of Sabah that JI was active in recruiting and raising funds there.
"As far as we know, we have no strong evidence that JI now exists, even though  Abu Bakar Bashir
... Leader of the Indonesian Mujahedeen Council and proprietor of the al-Mukmin madrassah in Ngruki. The spriritual head of Jemaah Islamiya, which he denies exists. Bashir was jugged and then released in the wake of the 2002 Bali bombings, which he blamed on a conspiracy among the U.S., Israel, and Australia. In 2014, as leader of Jemaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), he pledged allegiance to ISIS....
was released in Indonesia. Until now, we have no information that the JI is back, because if there was anything, we would certainly already know," Azman said.
Bashir was a JI-co-founder and spiritual leader of the turban group. He was released by Indonesian authorities in January after serving nearly 10 years of a 15-year sentence for funding a turban training camp. He was freed after authorities cut 55 months off his term for good behavior.
Last month, a local newspaper in Sabah quoted state Police Commissioner Hazani Ghazali as saying that JI members were active in the state located on Borneo Island, recruiting and raising funds for the group.
Hazani also told the Daily Express that Sabah could see attacks similar to the Bali bombings of 2002 and the attack on the J.W. Marriott hotel in Jakarta a year later, if law enforcement did not monitor and halt JI activities. 
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