RI militants held in Malaysia: Report<\/p>\n
Reuters, Kuala Lumpur<\/p>\n
Malaysia is holding in detention six Indonesians caught returning
\nfrom a Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) training camp in the southern
\nPhilippines, a senior security official told Reuters on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The security source said the six men were caught several weeks
\nago, but their arrest kept quiet.<\/p>\n
"They were all Indonesians on their way home from the southern
\nPhilippines where they had been at a JI training camp," the
\nsource told Reuters.<\/p>\n
They were discovered among a boatload of illegal immigrants
\narrested while trying to enter Malaysia's state of Sabah near
\nSandakan, a port on the northeast coast of Borneo, just across
\nthe Sulu Sea from the islands of the southern Philippines.<\/p>\n
It is a favored route for militants. There is large flow of
\nillegal migrants through Borneo as the island is shared between
\nIndonesia, Malaysia and the tiny sultanate of Brunei, and the
\ncoastline and interior are hard to patrol.<\/p>\n
The source said one of the men, known as "Denny", was a
\ntrainer at a camp hosted by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front
\n(MILF) in the restive southern Philippine island of Mindanao.<\/p>\n
Philippines intelligence officials wish to question Denny and
\nhe may be sent back, though for now all six men were being held
\nin Kamunting detention camp in northern Malaysia, the source
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
Malaysia is holding some 72 JI suspects, and up to 18 members
\nof a local group called Kumpulan Militan Malaysia (KMM), under a
\nsecurity law allowing detention without trial.<\/p>\n
Around 46 of the prisoners in Kamunting began a hunger strike
\nlast week to protest the conditions of their imprisonment.<\/p>\n
JI, a Southeast Asian offshoot of al-Qaeda, is believed to
\nhave been behind the Bali bombings in late 2002 and the suicide
\nbomb attack on the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta last year.<\/p>",
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