| Submit your comments on this article |
| Southeast Asia |
| Singapore, Indonesia Step up Cooperation against IS |
| 2015-07-29 |
| [AnNahar] Singapore and Indonesia on Tuesday agreed to step up cooperation against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) amid fears that gunnies returning from the Middle East could mount attacks in Southeast Asia. "We are both worried about ISIS and we both have nationals from our countries involved in these terrorist activities including in the Middle East," Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said after talks with visiting Indonesian President Joko Widodo. Shortly after their meeting, Singapore disclosed that a 51-year-old local Moslem, Mustafa Sultan Ali, was deported by ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to the city-state in June after attempting to join IS, also known as ISIS, by crossing into Syria. Widodo said the two leaders "agreed that we will share information and other things that are linked to terrorism and ISIS, because we know that this is a threat to almost all countries." Indonesia, which has the world's largest Moslem population and has long struggled with extremism, fears up to 500 of its citizens have been lured to the Middle East by IS. Singapore is predominantly ethnic Chinese, with 13.3 percent of the population belonging to the Moslem Malay minority. The Ministry of Home Affairs said the Singaporean deported by Turkey was placed under detention without trial for two years under internal-security laws. "Investigations showed that Mustafa had been deeply radicalized by the terrorist ideology of ISIS and other radical ideologues he had come across online," a press statement said. "He had traveled to Turkey and tried to make his way to Syria in order to participate in armed violence by fighting alongside ISIS. Mustafa also said that he was prepared to carry out ISIS-directed terrorist attacks against Western establishments in Singapore." Singapore, one of Asia's most affluent cities and a regional base for thousands of multinational companies, is seen as a prime target for attacks by turban groups due to its close security links with the United States. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |