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KINABALU: The fate of two Malaysian suspected terrorists being held at the US
military’s detention facilities in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is still uncertain
with one of them showing signs of remorse while the other still holding on to
his alleged extremist views, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Fuzi Harun
said.
Mohd
Farik Amin and Mohammed Nazir Lep, alleged operatives of Al-Qaeda and
Indonesian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), were captured in Thailand in
2003.
They
were allegedly involved in the JW Marriott Hotel bombing in Jakarta that year
and have been held at Guantanamo Bay since 2006.
“We’ve
been engaging our US counterpart on the matter from time to time,” Fuzi told
reporters, Monday.
“We
have appealed to them to release our two citizens held more 15 years already.
We have sent several letters through Wisma Putra since the previous US
administration, but there’s been no response yet on their status, on whether
they will be returned in the near future. We can’t guarantee anything but
efforts are ongoing.”
There
were reports speculating the two could be tried in the US and made to serve the
initial part of their sentence there and the remainder in Malaysia.
“We
will wait for an update from the US government on this though one of them, we
have been informed, has shown signs of repentance, but the other one is still
hard, so it’s up to the US to charge or return them home,” said Fuzi, who said
he could not remember who was still showing signs of extremism.
Full
news: Daily Express – 19 February 2019
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