Malaysia investigates holding 2 citizens on terrorism charges in Beirut

Malaysian authorities are investigating reported detention of two citizens in Lebanon on charges of complicity with Al-Qaeda, Interior Minister Hishamuddin Hussein said on Monday. The government will cooperate with the Interpol to investigate records of the two accused Malaysians "because this cases constitutes a danger to us," the minister said in a statement to journalists. The Malaysian embassy in Beirut had confirmed detention of the pair at Beirut airport on charges of affiliation with the notorious group. The two Malaysians, who were subjected to interrogations by the Lebanese intelligence, told the interrogators that they had been recruited by a third Malaysian, named Mustafa Mansour, and that they had tried to enter Syria via Turkey to carry out suicidal attacks.