–  KUMPULAN MUJAHIDIN MALAYSIA – KMM

* Kumpulan Mujahidin Malaysia – KMM, founded in 1995, favors the over-throw of the Mahathir government and the creation of an Islamic state comprising Malaysia, Indonesia, and the southern Philippines.

Malaysian authorities believe that smaller, more violent, extremist groups have split from KMM. Zainon Ismail, a former mujahid in Afghanistan, established KMM in 1995. Nik Adli Nik Abdul Aziz, currently detained under Malaysia’s Internal Security Act (ISA), assumed leadership in 1999. Malaysian police assert that three Indonesian extremists, one of whom is in custody, have disseminated militant ideology to the KMM. Malaysia is currently holding alleged members of the KMM and its more extremist wing under the ISA for activities deemed threatening to Malaysia’s national security, including planning to wage a jihad, possession of weaponry, bombings and robberies, the murder of a former state assemblyman, and planning attacks on foreigners, including U.S. citizens.

Several of the arrested militants have reportedly undergone military training in Afghanistan, and some fought with the Afghan mujahideen during the war against the former Soviet Union. Others are alleged to have ties to Islamic extremist organizations in Indonesia and the Philippines.

Malaysian police assess the KMM to have 70 to 80 members. The Malaysian press reports in 03/2003 that police was tracking 200 suspected Muslim militants. KMM is reported to have networks in the Malaysian states of Perak, Johor, Kedah, Selangor, Terengganu, and Kelantan. They also operate in Wilayah Persukutuan, the federal territory comprising Kuala Lumpur. According to the same press reports, the KMM has ties to radical Indonesian Islamic organizations, such as the INDONESIAN JI, and has sent members to Ambon, Indonesia, in 2000-1, to fight against Christians (see – Christmas 2000).

Actually KMM operated very much as the Malaysian branch of the INDONESIAN JI.  

 

 

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