PONTIAN: The government will wait for the Prevention of Terrorism Board to decide the fate of militant Yazid Sufaat before deciding on the next course of action. "I have not come to the final decision, I just reviewed the matter and the two-year detention under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) is likely to end soon. "Regardless, there is a procedure before the final decision is made through a single board (Prevention of Terrorism Board) where it will look at the circumstances during the detention period and how he (Yazid) has behaved, whether he has improved or not. "In any case, I cannot decide before the board meeting and the board has not yet met to look at the case," he said. According to Singapore’s Straits Times, Yazid attempted to cultivate and load anthrax onto weapons in Afghanistan in the 1990s.

Source: New Strait Times October 19, 2019 10:52 UTC