FORMER Masters student Siti Noor Aishah Atam who was re-arrested under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012 (Sosma) recently, was previously in danger of being kidnapped by terrorists as she knew too much about their activities, an intelligence source revealed.

Siti Aishah, the intelligence officer said, was in danger but she was not aware of it. The terrorist, Muamar Gadaffi Mohamad Shafawi, a militant group instructor, had wanted to get hold of her by whatever means.

First he visited her family home in Dungun, Terengganu in 2014, asking for her hand in marriage. He wanted Siti Aishah as his second wife, but her parents were having none of it as Gadaffi, a father of two, and his friends were “rude”.

The source said shortly after the proposal was rejected, the family started receiving death threats.

The Malaysian Insight reported that Gadaffi had threatened to hurt her family if they informed the authorities about the meeting.

“Because of that, I lodged a report in 2014 about them but it has nothing to do with my daughter,” Atam Jusoh told The Malaysian insight.

Investigations also revealed that after the proposal was rejected, the next course of action was to kidnap her.

According to the source, Gadaffi was worried that Siti Aishah had a lot of information pertaining to his activities and IS recruiter Dr Mahmud Ahmad.

Siti Aishah got to know Gadaffi, who is from Kuala Kangsar, Perak, through Facebook while Mahmud was her lecturer in Universiti Malaya.

“He and terror suspect Mahmud had planned to kidnap her because she knew too much,” said the source.

“Gadaffi, who was arrested and charged in 2014, also played a vital part in recruiting and training Malaysians for Islamic State (IS) prior to his arrest.”

He is currently serving a 15-year sentence for providing military training to IS recruits in Kuala Kangsar.

The 30-year-old who also goes by the name Fatani @ Iskandar Zulkarnain, played his first prominent role in militancy when he was appointed as an advisor in extremist organisation Briged Al-Jamaah (BAJ) in 2013.

BAJ was planning attacks on nightclubs and a beer brewery in the Klang Valley.

The plan was to launch an attack before the members left for Syria to fight alongside other IS militants.

The group was also responsible for making homemade firearms and bullets and trained those who wanted to fight in Syria.

The source added that BAJ conducted training at Gunung Arang Para in Kuala Kangsar in December 2013.

Following a tip-off, police arrested a few terror suspects including a Rela member. They seized a homemade rifle and 344 bullets in the swoop in 2014.

Gadaffi came to know Mahmud through Siti Aishah, the intelligence source added.

Gadaffi then joined Arakan Daulah Islamiah (ADI) under Mahmud’s leadership.

After pairing up, the duo went to southern Philippines via Sandakan to start a new terror network. As Mahmud continued to hide out in Philippines, Gadaffi tried to sneak back into Malaysia in 2014 before he was nabbed by police.

According to the source, ADI had merged with militant group Abu Sayyaf and that Gadaffi and Mahmud had pledged allegiance to IS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi.

(Gadaffi had in 2011 also been arrested for a drug-related offence).

He was charged in 2014 and jailed five years in February last year after he was found guilty of giving military training to IS recruits.

In April last year, the Court of Appeal increased his sentence to 15 years.

Siti Aishah, meanwhile, made headlines recently when she was detained for allegedly possessing 12 terrorism-related books.

She had also been held under the Prevention of Crime Act 1959 (POCA) last year, on the day the Kuala Lumpur High Court acquitted and discharged her for possessing the books.

The former Universiti Malaya usuluddin (Islamic studies) student said she was using the books for her Masters degree research.

The High Court found that there was no prima facie case against her and acquitted her. After the POCA detention, she was put under house arrest, with an electronic monitoring device fitted to her before she was re-arrested on March 27. – April 8, 2017.