KUALA LUMPUR: One was a militant who just joined the Islamic State terror group after attending sekolah pondok, or traditional religious school, in Kelantan.
The other was a militant who had been fighting with IS in Syria but was wounded and had to come back here, where he made a living from conning money from IS sympathisers on Facebook.
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