Living in JB 3 (Johore)

Hi Everybody,

Very happy to find this forum. I will moving to Horizon Hill from Aug. Hope bro and sis can help me to settle down faster.

Welcome Eski1108 to JB. Hope you find great life and great food likewise.

Thks KSLresidence, having said that. 1st thing 1st, Any body got contact for mover? Since i will be moving on 1st Aug. No bulky furniture, just boxes n small ikea cabinet.

Hi Eski, welcome to Jb. Will pm you the contact.

Is there anyone here who engage a part-time cleaning company? Hope for some contact if any.

Hi Interstuff,

Thanks

Eski1108 said:

Thks KSLresidence, having said that. 1st thing 1st, Any body got contact for mover? Since i will be moving on 1st Aug. No bulky furniture, just boxes n small ikea cabinet.

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Found the thread in the non sticky treads section on page 5.
http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?110630-Movers-from-singapore-to-jb-recommendations

Nightclub blast in Puchong linked to IS: Malaysian police chief
Posted 04 Jul 2016 15:44 Updated 04 Jul 2016 16:17

KUALA LUMPUR: The blast at a nightclub in Puchong, Selangor on Jun 28 was linked to Islamic State (IS), said Malaysia's Inspector-General of Police (IGP) on Monday (Jul 4).

In a media conference, Inspector-General Khalid Abu Bakar added that two people have been detained so far in connection with the blast.

A total of 13 individuals, including two police officers, are believed to be involved in IS activities, he added.

The Malaysian Royal Police also named two of the suspects - Md Saifuddin Muji and Jasanizam Rosni - who are still at large.

- Bernama/hs

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/nightclub-blast-in/2928744.html

It appears that IS is getting more active in Malaysia.

FHBH12 said:

It appears that IS is getting more active in Malaysia.

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Finally, IS terrorists started bombing in MY.
According to the Straits Times, 7 men were arrested in Kedah, 4 in Selangor, 2 in Kuala Lumpur and one each in Malacca and Penang and all were aged between 19 and 52.
It was confirmed that 2 of the 15 were also policemen.
Be afraid, be very afraid because you'll never know which policeman is a part time terrorist.

snowbird said:

Finally, IS terrorists started bombing in MY.
According to the Straits Times, 7 men were arrested in Kedah, 4 in Selangor, 2 in Kuala Lumpur and one each in Malacca and Penang and all were aged between 19 and 52.
It was confirmed that 2 of the 15 were also policemen.
Be afraid, be very afraid because you'll never know which policeman is a part time terrorist.

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Best stay at home. You never know when it will strike in Malaysia. Dangerous country here.
Singapore is still the safest country in the world.

snowbird said:

Finally, IS terrorists started bombing in MY.
According to the Straits Times, 7 men were arrested in Kedah, 4 in Selangor, 2 in Kuala Lumpur and one each in Malacca and Penang and all were aged between 19 and 52.
It was confirmed that 2 of the 15 were also policemen.
Be afraid, be very afraid because you'll never know which policeman is a part time terrorist.

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IS is also in Singapore. Recall the recent arrests. The battle is against an ideology that has no physical form.

Very disturbing news: ISIS declares war on Malaysia and Indonesia

http://news.asiaone.com/news/malaysia/declares-war-malaysia-and-indonesia

mpan12 said:

Very disturbing news: ISIS declares war on Malaysia and Indonesia

http://news.asiaone.com/news/malaysia/declares-war-malaysia-and-indonesia

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ISIS has long been active in Malaysia. In fact, there are already about 500 IS suspects detained indefinitely in Malaysia under its ISA or NSA which many people condemn including by some of our fellow bloggers here recently.

snowbird said:

Be afraid, be very afraid because you'll never know which policeman is a part time terrorist.

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Terrorist can come in any form lah. They can strike anywhere...anytime. So u also be afraid, be very afraid too. Just keep fingers cross ya.

snowbird said:

Finally, IS terrorists started bombing in MY.
According to the Straits Times, 7 men were arrested in Kedah, 4 in Selangor, 2 in Kuala Lumpur and one each in Malacca and Penang and all were aged between 19 and 52.
It was confirmed that 2 of the 15 were also policemen.
Be afraid, be very afraid because you'll never know which policeman is a part time terrorist.

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Even Najib fears for his life. It must have been quite a serious threat in Malaysia.

KL terminal, Najib's residence on high alert
Thursday, Jul 7, 2016

Malaysia has put its main transport hub and the Prime Minister's residence on high alert following the country's first terror attack by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

The government is also looking to beef up security beyond the city centre and the main Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).

"We have given orders for KL Sentral to be an entry point to KLIA; all bags and passengers will go through the same screening checks as at KLIA," said Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai.

KL Sentral, the capital city's train terminal that links to the main airports KLIA and KLIA2, allows passengers to check in at the station.

Datuk Seri Liow said security at the rail station had not been as tight as at the airports but will now be increased to match them.

Additional closed-circuit TVs and screening machines will be installed at the station for those heading to the airport.

Malaysia Airports Holdings, the country's main airport operator, said all of its 39 airports have had heightened security levels since October 2014, and that the police patrol more often during festive seasons.

Yesterday morning, police conducted two security checks as visitors queued up for Prime Minister Najib Razak's annual Aidilfitri open house.

Since ISIS first issued threats against Malaysia's leaders and high-ranking officials last year, police have beefed up their presence in the city centre and have been on high alert.

They have arrested almost 200 suspected militants.

On Tuesday last week, an explosion in a neighbourhood bar which injured eight people was later attributed to Malaysian ISIS militants.

They had thrown an old hand grenade into a crowd watching a Euro Championship match.

Police initially denied that the incident was linked to terrorists.

They have since arrested 15 people, including two low-ranking policemen in connection with the attack.

Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar yesterday tried to defuse public concern over the terrorist group's apparent infiltration of the police force.

He said it was the department's monitoring of its personnel that had led to the arrests.

Tan Sri Khalid also berated the media for glamorising terrorism by interviewing militants.

"What are you trying to do by interviewing them? Give them equal representation?" he said, reported The Star.

The nation's top cop also warned the media that those which put national security at risk by interviewing militants could face action.

On Tuesday, the New Straits Times (NST) and Chinese paper Oriental Daily published an interview with a Malaysian militant in Syria named Muhammad Wanndy Mohamed Jedi.

The man has been called the mastermind of ISIS' Malaysian cell operations, giving out instructions to local militants.

He told the NST that last week's attack was just a warning to the government over its crackdown on ISIS.

A larger-scale attack would follow if the government continues to "punish" ISIS followers, he said.

Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said that the government will enlist the help of terrorists who have repented to help counter the spread of extremist ideology in Malaysia, The Star also reported.

Malaysians were shocked to learn that the attack on the neighbourhood bar was tied to ISIS.

The group had said in earlier threats that it would target establishments frequented by Westerners in the city centre.

Police, however, said the suburban pub was not the group's initial target but was chosen for attack after other bars closed early.

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- See more at: http://news.asiaone.com/news/malaysia/kl-terminal-najibs-residence-high-alert#sthash.e45QLIOs.dpuf

Expert: Blasts are just the beginning of IS attacks in South-East Asia
Wednesday, Jul 6, 2016

PETALING JAYA - Amid a string of suicide bombings in numerous countries, a terrorism expert has warned that these Islamic State (IS) attacks were just the beginning in South-East Asia.

The grenade attack on a pub in Selangor was a warning sign, said Sidney Jones, director of the Jakarta-based Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict.

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"As IS comes under more pressure in the Middle East, it wants to see more attacks elsewhere," Jones told The Jakarta Post.

The IS has also sent a message to Malaysian police, warning them of an "all out attack".

Mohd Rafi Udin, 50, a former taxi driver from Negri Sembilan, delivered the message in a video, urging IS sympathisers in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines to unite under the leadership of Abu Sayyaf terrorist Abu Abdullah.

"To those of you in Bukit Aman, know that you will not remain peaceful any longer. We will return to attack you or our friends over there will cut off your necks," said Mohd Rafi.

The clip showed glimpses of weapons and IS recruits in training at an undisclosed location.

Among others, Mohd Rafi also called on his "friends in Malaysia" to start carrying out attacks soon.

Malaysian police nationwide are on high alert following the terror threats made against them.

Security had been heightened everywhere including Bukit Aman, said Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Seri Noor Rashid Ibrahim.

"Other than the videos released by IS, we also get threats from them in other ways. We are not taking these lightly," he said.

Noor Rashid was commenting on the IS propaganda video in which Mohd Rafi, alongside an Indonesian and Filipino, were seen beheading a prisoner each.

He said police had been monitoring Mohd Rafi's movements for years since his days with the radical Kumpulan Militan Malaysia in 1998.

"He was detained for a few years under the Internal Security Act until 2006. After his release, he worked as a taxi driver in Cheras," he said, adding that he was married with five children.

He left for Syria in 2014 and joined IS, using the name Abu 'Awn al-Malizi.

Asked about the freeze on leave for policemen in the country, Noor Rashid said that this was the usual move during holiday seasons.

"It is a 90 per cent freeze for Hari Raya, not a 100 per cent freeze and not because of the threats," he said.

Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Dr Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki, who is in charge of Islamic affairs, said: "We have to assist the police, not undermine them," adding that terrorism had no place in Islam.

Meanwhile, the counter-terrorism division of Special Branch acknowledged that it was shocking to see Mohd Rafi beheading a captive in the video.

"There is a possibility he was brainwashed to a point where he could behead someone to give him credibility so he could be elected as the head of the Malaysian contingent in Syria," said Datuk Ayub Khan Mydin Pitchay, who is the division head.

Speaking to South China Morning Post, he said: "For Rafi to slaughter someone this way shows how drastically he has changed in a short period of time. The ramifications of this video are huge.

"This could possibly encourage IS sympathisers in Malaysia to carry out beheadings here," Ayub Khan said.

He also cautioned that the potential targets of attacks were night spots, police, government buildings and strategic assets.

Assoc Prof Kumar Ramakrishna, head of policy studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies Singapore, said that this suggested the dehumanising effects of IS' ideology was taking root among the South-East Asian fighters in Syria.

- See more at: http://news.asiaone.com/news/malays...-attacks-south-east-asia#sthash.B0G845Wp.dpuf

The terrorist attack in Dhaka last week where 20 people, mostly foreigners, were killed, some of the attackers are young, well educated and from well to do families.
One of them had actually studied in one of MY's institution of higher learning.
Now, the authorities are wondering whether :

A. The boy was radicalized and brain-washed after he left MY .
B. The boy was radicalized and brain-washed during his stay in MY
C. The boy was already radicalized and brain-washed before he arrived in MY and during his stay, radicalized and brain-washed many others.

B and C will be the most frightening for the authorities.

snowbird said:

The terrorist attack in Dhaka last week where 20 people, mostly foreigners, were killed, some of the attackers are young, well educated and from well to do families.
One of them had actually studied in one of MY's institution of higher learning.
Now, the authorities are wondering whether :

A. The boy was radicalized and brain-washed after he left MY .
B. The boy was radicalized and brain-washed during his stay in MY
C. The boy was already radicalized and brain-washed before he arrived in MY and during his stay, radicalized and brain-washed many others.

B and C will be the most frightening for the authorities.

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8 Bangladeshi men detained under Singapore's ISA for planning terror attacks back home
The eight Bangladeshi nationals (clockwise from top left) Islam Shariful, 27; Mamun Leakot Ali, 29; Md Jabath Kysar Haje Norul Islam Sowdagar, 30; Miah Rubel, 26; Rahman Mizanur, 31; Sohag Ibrahim, 27; Sohel Hawlader Ismail Hawlader, 29; Zzaman Daula
The eight Bangladeshi nationals (clockwise from top left) Islam Shariful, 27; Mamun Leakot Ali, 29; Md Jabath Kysar Haje Norul Islam Sowdagar, 30; Miah Rubel, 26; Rahman Mizanur, 31; Sohag Ibrahim, 27; Sohel Hawlader Ismail Hawlader, 29; Zzaman Daulat, 34. PHOTOS: MHA

PUBLISHEDMAY 3, 2016, 4:00 PM SGTUPDATEDMAY 4, 2016, 12:09 AM

SINGAPORE - Eight Bangladeshi men working in Singapore who were planning to stage terror attacks back home have been detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA), the Ministry of Home Affairs announced on Tuesday (May 3).

The men, aged between 26 and 34, called their group the Islamic State in Bangladesh (ISB) and intended to join terror group ISIS as foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq.

But as it was difficult to travel to the Middle East, they focused on returning to Bangladesh to topple their government through violent means, set up an Islamic State there, and bring it under the self-declared caliphate of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

They were detained last month (April 2016), in the first ISA detentions involving a terror cell of foreign workers.

Late last year, a closed religious study group of 27 radicalised Bangladeshi workers who had a significant amount of extremist material in their possession were arrested under the ISA, and deported. Their deportations were made public in January.

But in the latest case, the ministry said its investigations found that the men had identified possible targets for attack back home at the time of their arrest.

They also had documents on weapons and bombmaking, and raised funds to buy firearms to carry out the attacks in Bangladesh. An undisclosed amount of money has been seized.

The group's ringleader, Rahman Mizanur, 31, was an S-Pass holder in construction who set up ISB as a clandestine group in March this year.

He recruited the other seven, all Work Permit holders employed in the local construction and marine industries.

They are: Mamun Leakot Ali, 29; Sohag Ibrahim, 27; Miah Rubel, 26; Zzaman Daulat, 34; Islam Shariful, 27; Md Jabath Kysar Haje Norul Islam Sowdagar, 30; and Sohel Hawlader Ismail Hawlader, 29.

"ISB poses a security concern to Singapore because of its support for ISIS and its readiness to resort to the use of violence overseas," the Ministry of Home Affairs said in a statement on the detentions.

"The detained ISB members are still under investigation for their activities in Singapore. Rahman Mizanur has said he would carry out an attack anywhere if he was instructed by ISIS to do so, though there are no specific indications that Singapore had as yet been selected as a target," the ministry added.

Several of those detained may be liable for prosecution for terrorism financing, it said.

The detentions come at a time of mounting concern that ISIS is winning recruits from Bangladesh, which has recently seen radicals carrying out deadly attacks on minorities.

The ministry said a document titled We Need For Jihad Fight was recovered from Rahman Mizanur, which contained a list of Bangladeshi government and military officials who could be targeted. It included "media peoples" and "disbelievers".

He also possessed documents on weapons and bomb making, as well as a significant amount of ISIS and Al-Qaeda radical material which he used to recruit ISB members in Singapore from January 2016.

Cover pages of the bomb-making instruction manual (left) and user manual for a sniper rifle found in the possession of Rahman Mizanur. The Bengali text at the top right of the bomb-making manual reads "How to make explosives through action and reaction?", while the text in the middle reads "Ammunition-related Bengali research oriented book". PHOTOS: MHA

"The ISB members planned to recruit other Bangladeshi nationals working in Singapore to grow the group," the ministry added.

As part of the crackdown on ISB, another five Bangladeshi workers were investigated under the ISA. The ministry said investigations showed that they were not involved in ISB.

But they "possessed and/or proliferated jihadi-related materials, or supported the use of armed violence in pursuit of a religious cause".

All five have been repatriated to Bangladesh.

The ministry said the Singapore Government takes a very serious view of any form of support for terrorism.

"Any person, foreigner or otherwise, who engages in any activity that is inimical to Singapore's national security and racial and religious harmony will be firmly dealt with under the law. In this connection, foreigners should not import their own domestic political agenda into Singapore and carry out activities here in pursuit of such an agenda," it added.

The ministry said anyone who knows or suspects that a person has been radicalised, or is engaging in terrorist activities or propagating extremist teachings, should promptly inform the Internal Security Department on 1800-2626-473 or the police on 999.

Later on Tuesday, Minister for National Development Lawrence Wong and Parliamentary Secretary for Home Affairs Amrin Amin said the detentions are a reminder that Singapore has to take terrorist threat seriously.

Mr Wong wrote on Facebook that the issue was not about "foreign workers or Islam".

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapo...res-isa-for-planning-terror-attacks-back-home

JOHOR BARU: Shopping malls and popular tourist destinations in Johor are beefing up security to ensure public safety in light of the recent Islamic State threats.

A Johor Baru City Square shopping mall official, Joyce Lee, said the management had been training its staff to be more vigilant.

“We have also set up a standard operating procedure for more effective training and police have been doing frequent rounds at the vicinity,” said Lee who is the deputy marketing manager here yesterday.

Lee noted that the complex recorded some 28 million visitors last year, an average of 2.3 million monthly.

“Our shoppers are a mix of locals and Singaporeans. We take the security issue very seriously and constantly monitor the place through closed-circuit television and patrols,” she added.

Similarly, Sutera Mall centre manager Crystal Soon said that they have been conducting impromptu bomb emergency drills in the mall without causing panic among its shoppers.

Soon pointed out that the exercises were carried out discreetly during the day or night to avoid panic or chaos, adding that the mall receives about 700,000 visitors a month.

See what some major international media writes about Malaysia today :

Najib’s government is undermining the country’s fundamentals.
He is putting political survival ahead of Malaysians’ interests.
Business and foreign investment will stay away until he embraces open and inclusive politics.

http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight...-own-political-survival-threatening-malaysias