Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar does not regret
having told Malaysians who are Islamic State (IS) militants overseas to “come
back if you dare”, saying it was not meant as a challenge to the terrorist
group.
Khalid defended the statement made shortly before the
Puchong bombing, saying the police did not take it upon themselves to challenge
anyone.
”No, I don’t regret that. Why should I regret what I said?
To challenge (anyone) is not the job of the police.
“I did not challenge them. What I said was ‘come back if
they dare’. I did not challenge them,” he told the press during a Hari Raya
event today at the Police Training Centre in Cheras, according to a report by
Malaysiakini.
Khalid had on June 24 responded to an IS video threatening
the police, in which IS militant Mohd Rafi Udin, based in Syria, had said:
“Those of you in Bukit Aman, you will no longer have peace. We will slaughter
you… when we return. Our friends back home will hunt you down.”
To this Khalid had said, “You only dare to make threats from
afar, (why don’t you) come back!”
Four days later, a grenade was thrown into Movida, a
nightspot in Puchong, that left eight people injured. Later police confirmed
the incident as being the first attack on Malaysian soil by the militant group.
Khalid also cautioned the media against “glamourising” the
terrorists, and threatened to take action against any media who interviewed
them as their actions would be seen as a threat to national security.
“Take that as a warning from me. This is not a game.”
This follows published interviews by the News Straits Times
and Oriental News Daily with Syria-based Malaysian IS leader Muhammad Wandy
Mohamed Jedi recently.
Source –FMT-
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