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| Southeast Asia |
| 5 KMM hard boyz released |
| 2004-07-19 |
| Malaysia has released five members of a militant group believed to be linked to a regional offshoot of Al-Qaeda, a newspaper reported on Sunday. The members of the Kumpula Militan Malaysia (KMM) group have been placed under restricted residence orders for two years, Mingguan Malaysia said, citing an Internal Security Ministry spokesperson. They will be required to report to a police station everyday, and are not allowed to leave the areas assigned to them without written permission from the authorities, the report said. "They were freed in stages from the detention camp," the report quoted the spokesperson as saying. The five were detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA), which allows indefinite detention without trial. The report did not say how long they had been detained. KMM has not been directly linked to any acts of terror but security sources say the group had some links to Jemaah Islamiah, which is regarded as the Southeast Asian offshoot of Al-Qaeda. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |