Counter Terrorism Division of the Special Branch principal assistant director, Datuk Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay , said they had arrested 74 people for various offences linked to terrorism, including planning attacks and raising funds for strikes.
He said the police foiled the planned terrorist attacks based on intelligence and information shared by various quarters. Ayob said preventive laws played an important role in curbing terrorist activities and every country, Malaysia being no exception, had specific laws to prevent or deal with terrorism.
"An absence of preventive laws will make it difficult for us to take precautionary measures. The preventive action is to stop the terrorists before they launch any attack, ” he said.
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