{"id":93703,"date":"2017-03-13T01:22:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T05:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=93703"},"modified":"2017-03-13T01:22:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T05:22:24","slug":"malaysia-arrests-five-filipinos-in-connection-with-is-linked-terror-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/13\/malaysia-arrests-five-filipinos-in-connection-with-is-linked-terror-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia arrests five Filipinos in connection with IS-linked terror activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_93704\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93704\" style=\"width: 975px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Capture-54.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93704\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Capture-54.png\" alt=\"The police believed the arrested Malaysian immigration officer helped arrange the travel for several terror suspects to Southern Philippines without valid documents. (Photo: Connor Tarter\/ Flickr)\" width=\"975\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Capture-54.png 975w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Capture-54-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Capture-54-768x375.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 975px) 100vw, 975px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The police believed the arrested Malaysian immigration officer helped arrange the travel for several terror suspects to Southern Philippines without valid documents. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/connortarter\/\">Connor Tarter\/ Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR\u2013The Malaysian police said on Monday they have arrested seven suspects, including five Filipinos and one Malaysian immigration officer, in connection with the Islamic State (IS).<\/p>\n<p>The first Filipino suspect, who has permanent residence in Malaysia, was found to have provided funds for Malaysian fugitives &#8220;Dr. Mahmud Ahmad&#8221; and Mohamad Joraimee Awang Raimee, who joined the IS in southern Philippines as recruiters for the terror group, said Khalid Abu Bakar, Inspector-General of the police in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Another two are believed to have assisted the transit of three Indonesian IS militants to southern Philippines via the Malaysian state of Sabah, said Khalid.<\/p>\n<p>The police believed the arrested Malaysian immigration officer helped arrange the travel for several terror suspects to Southern Philippines without valid documents.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were arrested in a series of counter-terrorism operations between Wednesday and Sunday in Sabah and Selangor, said Khalid.<\/p>\n<p>It is not the first time the police uncovered links between Sabah and southern Philippines, where the Philippine government exert loose control over the Abu Sayyaf, a Jihadist rebel group.<\/p>\n<p>The Malaysian police busted a four-member terror cell in Sabah in January, in which the police found the cell helped new recruits of IS-linked militant from Malaysia, Indonesia, ethnic Rohingya community in Bangladesh to transit via Sabah to Marawi city in Mindanao of the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR\u2013The Malaysian police said on Monday they have arrested seven suspects, including five Filipinos and one Malaysian immigration officer, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":93704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[2822,851,16527],"class_list":["post-93703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-filipinos","tag-malaysia","tag-terror-activities","mauthors-xinhua-via-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}