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| Southeast Asia |
| Philippines links with busted Malaysian under scrutiny |
| 2006-06-01 |
| Malaysian authorities said one of the 12 terror suspects arrested in Sabah had trained terrorists in the southern Philippines, where Filipino security forces are battling members of the al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group. The suspects, believed to have links to the Indonesian terrorist group Darul Islam, have been detained and authorities were investigating their links with the Abu Sayyaf group operating in the southern Philippines. Philippine troops were pursuing the Abu Sayyaf, blamed for two cross-border kidnappings in Sabah in 2000 and the spate of deadly bomb attacks in the southern Philippines, since 1994. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |