{"id":8204,"date":"2021-01-14T13:10:48","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T13:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3117788\/malaysias-coronavirus-lockdowns-blessing-disguise-reducing-isis"},"modified":"2021-01-14T13:10:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T13:10:48","slug":"malaysias-coronavirus-lockdowns-a-blessing-in-disguise-for-reducing-isis-threat-counterterrorism-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/14\/malaysias-coronavirus-lockdowns-a-blessing-in-disguise-for-reducing-isis-threat-counterterrorism-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia\u2019s coronavirus lockdowns a \u2018blessing in disguise\u2019 for reducing Isis threat: counterterrorism chief"},"content":{"rendered":"Malaysia\u2019s counterterrorism chief says lockdowns resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic have been a \u201cblessing in disguise\u201d in reducing the terror threat posed by Islamic State (Isis) supporters in the country, adding that the release of a radical Indonesian cleric is unlikely to reactivate local terror cells of the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah (JI).\r\rNormah Ishak, head of Counter-Terrorism Division of the Special Branch \u2013 the intelligence arm of the Malaysian police \u2013 and the first woman to\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/politics\/article\/3117788\/malaysias-coronavirus-lockdowns-blessing-disguise-reducing-isis\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia\u2019s counterterrorism chief says lockdowns resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic have been a \u201cblessing in disguise\u201d in reducing the terror threat posed by Islamic State (Isis) supporters in the country, adding that the release of a radical Indones&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8733,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8204\/revisions\/8733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}