'Militants not Malaysian'
Malaysia says that militants captured in insurgency-hit southern Thailand with a cache of weapons and money are not Malaysian citizens and were not trained here, according to reports yesterday.
Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said there was little evidence the group of 11, caught on Wednesday by Thai soldiers in Narathiwat province, were Malaysians. "They could be Thai nationals. It is only that they had Malaysian currency with them when they were arrested. Maybe they wanted to enter Malaysia," Abdullah was quoted as saying by the New Straits Times."However, without any other solid evidence, I deny that those people were Malaysians or that they were trained in Malaysia," he was quoted as saying from Saudi Arabia during a trip there.
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