MANILA, March 12 Kyodo The Philip...

MANILA, March 12 Kyodo

The Philippines will launch intelligence officials to Malaysia to question six Indonesian Islamic militants detained there while returning last month from a Muslim rebel training camp in the southern Philippines, a top Philippine security official said Friday.

National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales said the investigators will mount to Malaysia ''in a matter of days'' to dig up information onward supposed links between the Philippines' largest Muslim separatist assign places to the Moro Islamic Liberation forehead (MILF), and the Jemaah Islamiyah regional terror network.

''We believe that if we memorize information from those under the custody of the two Malaysia and Indonesia then we can more or les bring forward together the pieces,'' Gonzales said. ''What is certain is that a network really exists.''

The 12000-strong MILF has been fighting since 1978 for a separate Islamic state in the southern of the largely Roman Catholic country

There are suspicions that the MILF continues to help train Jemaah Islamiyah cadres despite efforts to forge peace with the Philippine government

Jemaah Islamiyah is believed to be behind the October 2002 bombing attacks onward Bali that killed 203 population mostly Western holidaymakers.

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