Malaysian injured in southern Thai bomb blast; Philippines arrests Abu Sayyaf supporter, the alleged mastermind in American's kidnapping
And more in this latest weekly Southeast Asia counter/terrorism roundup.
Welcome to my latest weekly Southeast Asia counter/terrorism roundup for exclusive subscribers.
The most interesting part in this wrap-up is a southern Thai bombing that hurt a Malaysian and the arrest of an alleged Abu Sayyaf Group supporter tagged as the mastermind in an American blogger’s kidnapping.
The latter part is particularly interesting as the Abu Sayyaf Group is widely thought to be dismantled but who can guess what a remnant supporter can do?
Also interesting are a Philippine terrorism landscape analysis by a very good analyst from Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and the debate that picked up again on the repatriation of Indonesian Islamic State fighters’ families now detained in Syrian camps.
Self radicalisation rears its ugly head again in Singapore with the arrest of three men, who, triggered by the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict, had allegedly planned violence overseas. Some analysts I talked to have been warning about the conflict’s potential effect on Southeast Asians and there you have it.
As usual, Indonesia is doing a great job in deradicalisation, reintegration and P/CVE and the deep details are in the linked stories below, mostly in Bahasa Indonesia, so it’d be wise to turn on your browser’s auto-translate.
Happy reading!
Philippine Army been receiving surrender feelers from terrorists
Malaysian woman jailed 3 years over possession of Islamic State material
Ex-Singapore govt teacher released from terrorism-related detention