KUALA LUMPUR Nov. 26 Kyodo Malays...

KUALA LUMPUR Nov. 26 Kyodo

Malaysian police said Tuesday they have arrested four suspected Muslim militants who were believed to be members of a suicide squad.

The four, according to federal police chief Norian Mai, were part of eight alleged members of the Jemaah Islamiyah assign places to the police were seeking.

The arrest brings the total number of suspected Muslim militants detained since late last year to more than 70

an belonged to a local network called the Malaysia Mujahiddeen clump and some to the Jemaah Islamiyah, a grouping with networks stretching to Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand.

the two groups aspire to establish an Islamic state in the region and as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but are headed by Indonesian clerics Abu Bakar Bashir and Hambali.

Malaysian and Singapore authorities have identified the clerics as the masterminds in a plan to attack U.S. and other Western interests in their respective countries.

The sum of two units clerics have also been linked to the Bali bombing that killed almost 200 the community mostly foreigners. Indonesian authorities have allude toed the blast was carried revealed by a suicide bomber.

Norian said a of the suspects arrested in Malaysia were also plotting suicide bombings.

''We have arrested a hardly any of the suicide squad,'' he said, moreover he declined to elaborate.

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