Malaysia Arrests 13 Suspects With Links To ISIS
KABUL: (MEP) Malaysian officials have arrested Wednesday 13 people on suspicion of having links to the Islamic State, the inspector-general of police said on Thursday.
The suspects were caught in an anti-terror operation launched on Wednesday, police chief Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar tweeted in a post.
The Malaysian police also confiscated IS-linked documents, Abu Bakar said.
The latest arrests are part of an ongoing operation to clamp down on the spread of militancy in the Muslim-majority country.
Malaysia had detained dozens of people in its nationwide crackdown on ISIS after terror attacks shook Indonesia’s capital Jakarta earlier this year. Among them, four suspects, one of whom was reportedly planning a suicide bombing in Malaysia, were arrested between Jan. 11 and 15, the Wall Street Journal quoted Bakar as saying in a statement. Another seven militants were arrested Jan. 23 by the anti-terrorism unit.
