The Straits Times
22 November 2015
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- Returning ISIS Militants “A Growing Menace to Southeast Asia”
Returning ISIS Militants “A Growing Menace to Southeast Asia”
Afief Abdul Madjid was given the cellphone number of a man in Turkey, whom he had never met, named Kholid.
“Call Kholid once you arrive in Turkey. He will take you across to Syria and to ISIS,” a local fixer for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant group told Afief.
That was just over two years ago in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
… Associate research fellow V. Arianti and senior analyst Jasminder Singh from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) said several KN fighters have aided terrorist groups in Indonesia.
“More terrorist cells in Indonesia might gain financial and logistical assistance from their comrades in Syria,” they said in a study out last week.
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