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| Southeast Asia |
| Malays uncover four tons of boom stuff |
| 2003-03-20 |
| Malaysian police have announced a major breakthrough in the campaign against terrorism, saying they have found a long-sought cache of four tonnes of ammonium nitrate. The fertiliser was found buried in a palm oil plantation in southern Johor state after the arrest of a suspected member of the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terror group. Rumours of the existence of the four tonnes of ammonium nitrate have circulated since security forces in neighbouring Singapore foiled a plot to bomb western targets there more than a year ago. The breakthrough came after police two weeks ago detained Mohamad Amin Musa, 29, who worked on the plantation belonging to his father. Mohamad Amin is reported to be a cousin of Taufik Abdul Halim, a Malaysian who is serving life imprisonment in Indonesia after being convicted of a series of bombings there. Malaysia is already holding more than 80 suspected Islamic militants, many of them allegedly JI members, under security legislation which permits indefinite detention without trial. Four tons of boom stuff. Those Malay cops can be very persuasive, when they want to be... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |