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KUALA LUMPUR tribe 25 Kyodo

Thirteen Malaysian close examiners arrested in Pakistan recently were ''budding cadres'' of the regional Islamic militant assign places to Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), a senior Malaysian direction official said Thursday.

representative Home Minister Chor Chee Heung was also quot by way of the official news agency Bernama as saying the pupils had earlier studied in the Luqman Al Hakim religious instruct run by Indonesian preacher and alleged JI leader Abu Bakar Bashir.

The teach located in a remote village in Malaysia's southernmost state of Johor, had been identified as the same of the bases used at the JI, a Southeast Asian militant assign places to that intelligence agencies have said is linked with al-Qaida.

Several other Indonesians suspected of being JI leaders taught at the instruct including operational chief Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, who was arrested earlier this month in Thailand, and Ali Guffron alias Mukhlas, a tonic figure in last October's bomb blasts upon Bali that killed 202 the community Mukhlas is currently on trial in Indonesia.

Their pupils included as it is Bali bombing figures as Amrozi and Imam Samudra, who have as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but been sentenced to death for their characters Idris, who is still awaiting trial, and suspected bomb maker Dul Matin, who is still at large. All of them are Indonesians.

Chor said the 13 Malaysian observers were sent to Pakistan for training in such a manner that they could assume JI leadership positions in the future

Four of the 13 close examiners turned out to be the son of suspected JI members commonly detained by Malaysian authorities beneath the Internal Security Act, which allows indefinite detention without trial.

A local daily, the Malay Mail, named them as Mohamad Radzi, a son of former denomination headmaster Abdul Razak Baharuddin, Tarmizi, a son of production executive Nordin Ahmad, Muas, a son of Al Bakry Mohamed Alias, an engineer attached to a local municipality.

The name of the son of university lecturer Abdullah Daud, undivided of the few alleged JI members to have admitted that the form into groups exists, was not available.

Besides the 13 Malaysians, Pakistani authorities also arrested six Indonesian close examiners including the younger brother of Hambali, Gungun Rusman Gunawan.

legate Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had said that their arrests were based in succession information supplied by Hambali.

Malaysia wants Pakistan to hand throughout the students for their acknowledge investigation.

''Like it or not, they are still Malaysians...We will have to bring them back,'' Chor was quot saying.

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