Malaysian IS fighter delivers ‘warning’ in gruesome IS video

Malaysian police are reportedly preparing themselves to face potential ‘lone-wolf attacks’ by Islamic State supporters in the country.

The New Straits Times‘s Aliza Shah reports that a new propaganda video has been released featuring the first known Malaysian IS fighter in Syria. 

The graphic video showed the Malaysian man along with two others, decapitating three captives whom the terror group believed to be spies, the NST reported.

It was reported that the man — identified as Mohd Rafi Udin from Negeri Sembilan — was seen in the video standing next to Indonesian and Filipino IS fighters, and after the the gruesome act, the three took turns to address IS supporters in their home countries.

The daily quoted Rafi as calling to IS supporters to “kill off” non-believers.

“Kill them wherever you meet them… If you have a car, hit them… Use your weapons and knives to stab them in the chest,” he said. He also issued this warning to federal police: ““Those of you in Bukit Aman, you will no longer have peace. “We will slaughter you… when we return. Our friends back home will hunt you down.”

The report stated that police have identified Rafi — who is also known as Abu Ain — as being among the Kumpulan Mujahiddin Malaysia (KMM) group who left Malaysia for Syria in 2014 to fight for IS.

According to Bukit Aman’s Special Branch Counter-Terrorism Division (SB-CTD) chief Datuk Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay, Malaysia has been singled out by the group as ‘a nation that must be fought’.

“Targeted attacks will likely be carried out the minute the pledge of allegiance to IS from these groups outside Syria is accepted and the areas they operate in are declared theirs,” Ayob told the NST.

He added that police were preparing for potential attacks within six months by two sources — Khatibah Nusantara in the Philippines and central IS.

Ayob revealed to the English daily that two IS-linked lone wolf attacks have already taken place in Malaysia, adding that these attackers now preferred using traditional weapons rather than guns and bombs so as to stay beneath the radar.

Ayob said the  SB-CTD  has so far crippled nine planned attacks, with two of them already at ‘stage two’ of planning.