Eleven terrorists with links to Al Qaeda have been arrested on suspicion of being involved in the disappearance of MH370 -- By Richard Shears and Mail On Sunday Reporter and Wills Robinson, Dailymail.co.uk

Suspects were arrested in the capital Kuala Lumpur and the state of Kedah

Said to members of violent new terror group said to be planning attacks

Interrogations came after demands from agencies including FBI and MI6

Manifest revealed presence of consignment but did not reveal its contents

Airline has admitted 200kg of lithium batteries was among the items

It refused to say what else, citing 'legal reason' related to 'ongoing' probe

 

 During the trial of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith Osama Bin Laden's son-in-law, Saajid Badat (left) said he had been instructed to give a shoe bomb to the Malaysians. He claimed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed masterminded the plot

A group of 11 terrorists with links to Al Qaeda were yesterday being interrogated on whether they are behind the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

The suspects were arrested in the capital Kuala Lumpur and in the state of Kedah last week and are members of a violent new terror group said to be planning bomb attacks in Muslim countries.

The interrogations come after international investigators, including the FBI and MI6, asked for the militants, whose ages range from 22 to 55 and include students, odd-job workers, a young widow and business professionals, to be questioned intensively about Flight MH370.

Nearly two months after the Beijing-bound plane vanished soon after take-off from Kuala Lumpur, no trace has been found despite a huge sea search costing hundreds of millions of pounds. It is thought to have crashed into the Indian Ocean with 239 people on board.

An officer with the Counter Terrorism Division of Malaysian Special Branch said yesterday the arrests had heightened suspicion that the flight’s disappearance may have been an act of terrorism.

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