11 Tersangka Teroris Terkait Hilangnya MH370?
Terorists Being Involved in the Disappearance of MH370?
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
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SEBELAS tersangka teroris terkait Alqaeda diinterogasi oleh pihak berwenang internasional untuk mengetahui apakah mereka terlibat dalam hilangnya Malaysia Airlines MH370.
Para tersangka ini ditangkap di Kuala Lumpur dan Kedah pekan lalu. Mereka adalah anggota kelompok teror baru yang berencana melakukan serangan bom di beberapa negara muslim.
Interogasi ini dilakukan setelah para penyelidik internasional termasuk FBI dan MI6 menanyai secara intensif para militan yang umurnya antara 22 sampai 55 tahun mengenai MH370, seperti dilansir Mail Online.
Seorang pejabat pada Divisi Kontraterorisme dari Pasukan Khusus Malaysia mengatakan bahwa penangkapan itu membersitkan kecurigaan bahwa hilangnya MH370 adalah aksi terorisme.
"Kemungkinan bahwa pesawat tersebut dibelokkan oleh kaum militan tetap tinggi dalam daftar kecurigaan dan para penyelidik internasional telah diminta membuat laporan menyeluruh mengenai kelompok teror baru ini," kata sang pejabat.
Dalam wawancara itu para tersangka mengaku merencanakan kampaye teror berkelanjutan di Malaysia namun membantah terlibat dalam hilangnya MH370, sambung dia.
Dalam persidangan Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, menantu Osama bin Laden, Saajid Badat yang adalah muslim asal Gloucester di Inggris, bersaksi dia telah diperintahkan di kamp teroris di Afghanistan untuk mengirimkan bom sepatu kepada orang-orang Malaysia.
Badat, yang berbicara melalui tautan video di suatu tempat di Inggris, mengaku kepada pengadilan New York bahwa skenario Malaysia dirancang oleh Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, arsitek utama Serangan 9/11.
A GROUP of 11 terrorists with links to Al Qaeda were yesterday being interrogated on whether they are behind the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
The suspects were arrested in the capital Kuala Lumpur and in the state of Kedah last week and are members of a violent new terror group said to be planning bomb attacks in Muslim countries.
The interrogations come after international investigators, including the FBI and MI6, asked for the militants, whose ages range from 22 to 55 and include students, odd-job workers, a young widow and business professionals, to be questioned intensively about Flight MH370.
Nearly two months after the Beijing-bound plane vanished soon after take-off from Kuala Lumpur, no trace has been found despite a huge sea search costing hundreds of millions of pounds. It is thought to have crashed into the Indian Ocean with 239 people on board.
An officer with the Counter Terrorism Division of Malaysian Special Branch said yesterday the arrests had heightened suspicion that the flight’s disappearance may have been an act of terrorism.
‘The possibility that the plane was diverted by militants is still high on the list and international investigators have asked for a comprehensive report on this new terror group,’ the officer said.
In interviews conducted so far, some suspects have admitted planning ‘sustained terror campaigns’ in Malaysia but denied being involved in the disappearance of the airliner, he added.
During the trial of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith Osama Bin Laden's son-in-law, Saajid Badat, a British-born Muslim from Gloucester, said he had been instructed at a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan to give a shoe bomb to the Malaysians.
He said: 'I gave one of my shoes to the Malaysians. I think it was to access the cockpit.'
Badat, who spoke via video link and is in hiding in the UK, told the New York court the Malaysian plot was being masterminded by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the principal architect of 9/11.
