My Sinchew, 14 Mar 2009
SINGAPORE: A new group calling itself the Al-Qaeda in South-east Asia has tried to mobilise support from the region for jihad in Pattani, where insurgents continue to battle the Thai government in the Muslim-majority south.
The group is the second to use terror network Al-Qaeda's name in the region, after escaped militant mastermind Noordin Top formed a Jemaah Islamiah (JI) splinter group, called the Al-Qaeda for the Malay Archipelago, about three years ago.
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