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182796
Wed, 05/18/2011 - 05:26
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S'POREAN ALLEGEDLY SUPPLIED ENGINEERING EQUIPMENT TO PHILIPPINE MILITANT GROUP
JOHOR BAHARU (Malaysia), May 18 (Bernama) -- Singapore businessman Abdul
Majid Kunji Mohamad now held under the Internal Security Act is believed to have
been supplying double-purpose engineering equipment to a militant group in the
southern Philippines.
According to an intelligence source, the equipment was for use in the arms
factory of the militants.
He told Bernama Tuesday that the equipment could be used to make several
types of weapons, including rocket propelled grenades.
He said the 60-year-old businessman, who was residing in Kuala Lumpur, had a
radical understanding of Islam but did not belong to any militant group.
The source said that Abdul Majid might be handed over to the Singapore
authorities after 60 days of detention under the ISA.
Inspector General of Police Ismail Omar in a statement on May 9 said
that Abdul Majid was detained on suspicion of contributing funds and giving
logistic aid to a militant group in the southern Philippines.
A report in a Singapore newspaper said that Abdul Majid was a board member
of the Association of Muslim Professionals in Singapore for a year in the 1990s.
The source said that Abdul Majid had donated SGD$8,000 to the group for the
building of a mosque in the southern Philippines.
Majid Kunji Mohamad now held under the Internal Security Act is believed to have
been supplying double-purpose engineering equipment to a militant group in the
southern Philippines.
According to an intelligence source, the equipment was for use in the arms
factory of the militants.
He told Bernama Tuesday that the equipment could be used to make several
types of weapons, including rocket propelled grenades.
He said the 60-year-old businessman, who was residing in Kuala Lumpur, had a
radical understanding of Islam but did not belong to any militant group.
The source said that Abdul Majid might be handed over to the Singapore
authorities after 60 days of detention under the ISA.
Inspector General of Police Ismail Omar in a statement on May 9 said
that Abdul Majid was detained on suspicion of contributing funds and giving
logistic aid to a militant group in the southern Philippines.
A report in a Singapore newspaper said that Abdul Majid was a board member
of the Association of Muslim Professionals in Singapore for a year in the 1990s.
The source said that Abdul Majid had donated SGD$8,000 to the group for the
building of a mosque in the southern Philippines.
