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BANGKOK, Thailand (DPA): Indonesia and Malaysia have provided Thai police with photographs and other information related to 19 suspected members of two radical Islamic groups that may be planning terrorist attacks on next month's APEC summit in Bangkok, news reports said Wednesday. Police at checkpoints along the Thai-Malaysian border have been put on alert to ensure the terrorist suspects do no enter Thailand, according to security officials quoted by the Thai-language daily Khom Chat Luek. Indonesian authorities gave Thai police a list of 11 people suspected to have been under the command of the Indonesian terrorist suspect Hambali before...

JAKARTA, April 14 (IslamOnline) - Alleged Al-Qaeda operative, Yazid Sufaat, denied terror charges, while he admitted that he met two Arab nationals at his condominium in Kuala Lumpur two years ago, a news report from Malaysiakini.com said on Sunday. However, Sufaat, high on the FBI list of suspects from South East Asia, who might be members or operatives of the Al-Qaeda, stressed the duo could not be involved in the Sept 11 attacks as they were amputees shopping for prosthetic legs in Malaysia. The 37-year-old pathologist and former army captain, who is also a businessmen in Malaysia, told this to...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia has arrested 13 suspected members of an Islamic militant group with links to Zacarias Moussaoui, the Frenchman on trial for the September 11 attacks on the United States, Bernama news agency said on Friday. The suspects, belonging to a wing of a group the authorities call Kumpulan Militan Malaysia (KMM), had connections with Moussaoui when he was in Malaysia between September 4 and 15 and again on October 5 in 2000, the state-run news agency quoted Inspector-General of Police Norian Mai as saying. "They were arrested because they are believed to be carrying out activities ...