KUCHING: Assistant Minister of Youth Development (Urban) Datuk Haji Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah said he hoped that the news report on attempts to bring militant ideology to Sarawak was not true.
“I hope this news is not true. We seem to be getting alarming news like this but difficult to substantiate as no arrest has been known to be made.
“I hope the police that come up with the news could give public information as ‘half news’ can lead to a lot of speculations,” he said yesterday when asked to comment on news report yesterday quoting Supt Ahmad Norisham Ma’arus of the Bukit Aman Special Branch Counter Terrorism Division (Investigation and Legal) that the police had detected attempts to bring militant ideology influenced by Daesh terrorists’ activities to Sarawak.
Supt Ahmad Norisham Ma’arus was reported to have disclosed to reporters after a briefing on ‘Awareness of extremism and IS threat’ in Miri on Tuesday that monitoring and investigation was still ongoing by Sarawak police, and so far the identity or nationality of those trying to bring in such militant ideology to Sarawak could not be made public.
“If we expose all, those involved will be alerted of being monitored and this involves not only one party but a big network,” he was quoted as saying.
Karim, who is also Assistant Minister of Housing said a few days ago he read about an arrest being made of a suspect bomber in Ampang who was about to go on a ‘bombing’ mission.
“We praise the public intelligence for this effort if the suspect is really up to this, but to date nothing has been made known to the public of who this suspect is and / or the bomb that he is carrying. This instead has lead to public members questioning whether what has been reported is really the truth or not,” said Karim, who is also the State Assemblyman for Asajaya.
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