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Johor police station attacker might have been radicalised by own family: Ex-JI operative
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An attacker stormed a police station in Ulu Tiram in Malaysia's Johor state on May 17 with a machete, killing two policemen and injuring a third before being shot dead.
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JAKARTA – The father of the 21-year-old suspect who attacked a police station in Ulu Tiram, a town in Malaysia’s southern Johor state, is unlikely to have been a member of militant group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), but he was a strict follower of hardline Salafi-Wahhabi ideology, a former JI operative told The Straits Times.
The suspect might have been radicalised by his own family, he noted.
