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cell. Ford and Battle were both sentenced to eighteen years' imprisonment. Lewis was sentenced to three years in a federal prison camp. Muhammad Bilal got eight years. Hawash was sentenced to seven years.
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262:Malaysian Airline System Flight 653
397:Fadzly Ariff Zainal Ariff (killed)
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257:1975 AIA building hostage crisis
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332:2000 Sipadan kidnappings
52:October Martinique Lewis
795:Special Task and Rescue
677:Counter-terrorist units
471:Zahit Muslim (executed)
409:Jonius Ondie (detained)
131:Al Saoub was killed by
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663:Tanzim Qaedat al-Jihad
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327:1985 Lahad Datu ambush
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950:Terrorism in Malaysia
908:Internal Security Act
866:Special Actions Team
744:Special Actions Unit
452:Noordin Mohammad Top
236:Part of a series on
44:Patrice Lumumba Ford
831:Swift Actions Troop
531:Mas Selamat Kastari
108:Ali Khalid Steitiye
106:. Also present was
60:Maher "Mike" Hawash
48:Jeffrey Leon Battle
17:Ahmed Ibrahim Bilal
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510:Ahmed Bilal
244:in Malaysia
934:Categories
686:Task force
659:(defeated)
590:Abu Sayyaf
564:Al-Ma'unah
533:(detained)
527:(deceased)
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494:Foreigners
267:Sauk Siege
167:2016-07-28
144:References
104:Washington
910:(defunct)
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294:hijacking
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276:hijacking
238:terrorism
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84:Hong Kong
596:Al-Qaeda
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29:Taliban
813:PASTAK
764:STAFOC
722:PASKAU
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770:STING
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859:MRTD
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787:MMEA
240:and
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