Mas Selamat Kastari Reportedly Arrested in Malaysia
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Originally posted by Atobe:
If the media is a dirty place - it is due to the fact that the media in Singapore and Malaysia are owned by Government Linked Companies.Can we trust the media that is no more then the mouth pieces of the respective Governments ?
If the media is dirty, should it not be left to us to piece together the bits and pieces of information and come to some sensible conclusions that the Government refuse to come clean and be more transparent about some issues of public interests and settle the looming question of "accountability" ?
The Government has always held the Citizens accountable for all actions - but will in turn refuse to be subjected to the same rules of accountability.
So much for their stand for Confucianism as a form for good governance.
Well said, Atobe. -
It is better that lee hsien loong don't say a word about it at all. Question the credibility of his crap.
Channel NewsAsia - Sunday, May 10
SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said Singapore’s security challenge is to keep up its guard without getting fatigued or complacent.
In his first remarks on the capture of Mas Selamat Kastari, Mr Lee said Singapore must not think that the re—arrest of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) leader is the end of its problem.
He said the terrorism situation in Southeast Asia is under control, but the threat is far from over. He added that the price of security is eternal vigilance.
In a statement to the media on Saturday, the Prime Minister also said information about the capture of Mas Selamat on 1 April was not made public earlier, because of a prior agreement with the Malaysian authorities.
Mr Lee said he was told about the arrest by his Malaysian counterpart Najib Razak on 11 April during an impromptu four—eye lunch in Thailand’s Pattaya after the ASEAN meeting was called off due to demonstrations.
He thanked Datuk Seri Najib for Malaysia’s generous support and help and told him Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Wong Kan Seng had earlier told him of the arrest.
Mr Lee said he was happy and relieved that Mas Selamat had been found and arrested before he could do any harm.
But Malaysia had asked Singapore to keep this information quiet for the time being, so Singapore respected this and held the information very tightly in order not to jeopardise the operation.
But on May 7 afternoon during a weekly pre—Cabinet meeting lunch, Mr Wong received a phone call informing him that the Internal Security Department (ISD) had received a request from the The Straits Times to confirm a scoop that Mas Selamat had been arrested by the Malaysian authorities.
As the news had leaked, the Singapore government had no choice but to confirm the story.
Ministers who were present at the lunch were completely taken by surprise when Mr Wong told them that Mas Selamat had been arrested.
In his statement, Mr Lee also thanked all officers involved in tracking down Mas Selamat over the past year.
He said he never had a doubt that Mas Selamat would be found because he knew the quality and commitment of the ISD officers working on this.
He said the ISD had recovered quickly from the mistakes which led to Mas Selamat’s escape from the Whitley Road Detention Centre in February last year.
Mr Lee also thanked the ISD and its Malaysian counterpart, the Special Branch, for working closely together.
— CNA/ir
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Originally posted by Shotgun:
Breaking News
Mas Selamat Kastari, the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) leader who escaped from Whitley Road Detention Centre in February last year, has reportedly been arrested in Malaysia.-CHANNELNEWSASIA.COM
Waiting for confirmation and full press coverage now. What say you, DPM Wong?
Mas Selamat escape: "All Singaporeans share the blame"
Mas Selamat caught: "Pat Pat ourselves on our backs. `We' did well :)"
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Originally posted by Atobe:
If the media is a dirty place - it is due to the fact that the media in Singapore and Malaysia are owned by Government Linked Companies.Can we trust the media that is no more then the mouth pieces of the respective Governments ?
If the media is dirty, should it not be left to us to piece together the bits and pieces of information and come to some sensible conclusions that the Government refuse to come clean and be more transparent about some issues of public interests and settle the looming question of "accountability" ?
The Government has always held the Citizens accountable for all actions - but will in turn refuse to be subjected to the same rules of accountability.
So much for their stand for Confucianism as a form for good governance.
Yes. You can try to piece the bits and pieces together, but the media from either sides are also reading each other's reports and may or maybe counter each other's claim subtly (depending on the issue then). How sure are you about the facts then? We cannot compare the discrepencies from reports from both sides (as it would mean the facts do not tally) but can only confirmed what had happened based on the common facts that had been written. -
banned
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Here is the Malaysian version of Singapore's PM press statement concerning the delay in publicly releasing the news.
The reason for going public was due to the Malaysian Straits Times call to Singapore ISD for confirmation that MAS has been arrested by the Malaysian authorities.
It seems that the Malaysian Straits Times had the resources to sniff out the news before the Singapore Straits Times, but could not get any confirmation from the Malaysian Authorities.
Now Singapore's PM had said that the Singapore Government had no choice since the newspaper had a news scoop on this MAS affair and was waiting to go public.
Questions need to be asked is -
Had the silence continued by both the Malaysian and Singapore Authorities, could this news have been delayed further ?
Was the Malaysian side consulted before the news was released publicly on both sides of the Causeway ?
Sunday May 10, 2009
Mas Selamat’s arrest kept secret to safeguard operation
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s top leaders already knew that its most wanted fugitive, Mas Selamat Kastari, had been captured by Malaysian authorities but had to keep mum about it on Malaysia’s request.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said his deputy Wong Kan Seng had told him that the Malaysian authorities had arrested the suspected Jemaah Islamiah militant group’s leader, but the news could not be made public as it would jeopardise follow-up operations.
“Kan Seng told me that the Malaysians had asked us to keep this quiet for the time being,” Lee said in a statement yesterday, adding that he then told his deputy that Singapore had to respect Malaysia’s request although he knew that Singaporeans would be anxious to know the news.
It is believed the statement was issued after some Singaporeans voiced their dismay over the news blackout on Mas Selamat’s arrest by the local authorities that only officially confirmed it after Singapore’s The Straits Times leaked the news yesterday.
Malaysian authorities, which also confirmed the arrest yesterday, said Mas Selamat was captured by Special Branch early last month in Skudai, Johor, and was being detained under the Internal Security Act.
Mas Selamat, 48, who was said to be plotting several bomb attacks here had been on the run after he escaped from the maximum security Whitley Road detention centre on Feb 27. It led to the first ever massive hunt by the city state authorities.
Lee said he came to know about the leak in the press on Thursday afternoon when Kan Seng, who is also the Home Minister, received a phone call from The Straits Times while the rest of the Cabinet ministers were having lunch prior to their weekly meeting.
His deputy said The Straits Times had called to ask the Internal Security Department (ISD) to confirm the newspaper’s scoop, which came from its Kuala Lumpur correspondent, that the Malaysian authorities had arrested Mas Selamat.
“As the story had leaked, we had no choice but to confirm it,” said Lee. “It was only then that Kan Seng told the ministers that Mas Selamat had been arrested. They were taken completely by surprise.”
The Prime Minister also said that when he had a four-eyed lunch with his Malaysian counterpart Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak in Pattaya on April 11, after the Asean meeting was called off, Najib told him that the Malaysian authorities had arrested Mas Selamat. — Bernama
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This is the latest photo of chubby MAS taken by the Malaysian Authorities on the day of his arrest on 1 April 2009.
Could he have been identified by the ill informed kampung Malaysians ?
The Singapore Authorities could have given several possible appearances that MAS would have taken in some kind of ID foto fit kit to help everyone to spot him.
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great.. now someone can talk to him and write a book about his escape...... since prisonbreak is ending soon... good time to start our own sg version...
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http://kentridgecommon.com/?p=3053#respond
Political implications of Mas Selamat’s re-arrest
SINGAPORE - The news of Mas Selamat’s re-arrest by the Malaysian police was greeted with relief by all and sundry. A head of the Singapore branch of the Jemaah Islamiyah, he was suspected to have harbored plans for acts of terror by crashing seven bomb-filled trucks within Singapore, and a plane into Changi Airport. He escaped from the Whitley Detention prison in February last year. According to official sources, it is the Internal Security Department (ISD) who gave Malaysians the lead on Mas Selamat’s trail, and “the ISD has redeemed itself” in doing so. The pertinent question is - what then are the political implications of his re-arrest?
It has been reported that opposition parties have been eyeing Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC for the next General Elections (GE). The GRC is currently helmed by Mr Wong Kan Seng, the current minister for home affairs. Mas Selamat’s escape from Whitley last year was predicted to be the main topic of contention. Apparently, Mr Wong might have received some sort of boost or saving grace from the ISD’s so-called role in leading to Mas Selamat’s re-arrest. One thing for sure is that during such debates, both Mr Wong’s opponents and the audience at large should not be expecting Mr Wong to reveal the specifics of ISD’s involvement in Mas Selamat’s re-arrest. The modus operandi of tracking terrorists by an intelligence agency is usually kept classified away from the public’s eye. Making such secretive information public would compromise its work.
During such a debate, dwelling on the specifics of Mas Selamat’s re-arrest is as good as missing the wood for the trees. The bigger picture should be a focus on potential lapses in security procedures in place at both sides of the causeway. There exist possibilities that individuals without passports could make it through the security barriers at both sides of the causeway.* In the beginning of 2009, Madam Voon Chit Yin, a grandmother who suffers from mild dementia, managed to make it back into Singapore without her passport. The implication is that the security at both sides is not watertight, and individuals harboring nefarious plots of terror could have slipped through, and this is a cause for concern. Took Leng How, Huang Na’s murderer managed to escape into Malaysia via the causeway before he was caught.**
Outstanding homeland security issues aside, political debates during a showdown at Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC should also touch on bread and butter issues. A member of the PAP team at Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC is Dr Ng Eng Hen, Minister for Education and Second Minister for Defense. Besides bread and butter issues, other debate topics could revolve around education and National Service (NS). For instance, NUS is ranked amongst the costliest universities in Asia. Dr Ng can be quizzed on any concrete plans by the education ministry to help students cope with their expenses, especially those who come from low income households.
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*Contrary to an earlier point stating that Mas Selamat crossed the causeway, in fact he did not. He swam cross the straits to Johor.
**Added Took Leng How’s case based on inputs from my fellow writers
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Latest updates at Singapore News Alternative:
1. Singapore - haven for money and fugitives
2. Singapore officials embarrassed by capture of terror suspect who left behind pants to hide escape
3. Taiwan can ink FTA with Singapore: President Ma Ying-jeou
4. Political implications of Mas Selamat’s re-arrest
5. AWARE Saga - A Trial Run For Post-Lee Kuan Yew Era
6. Mas Selamat's Arrest Kept Secret To Safeguard Operation .
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Mas Selamat capture: Who gets the credit?
http://www.littlespeck.com/content/security/CTrendsSecurity-090508.htm
Littlespeck.com, 9 May 2009, Seah Chiang Nee
That the dangerous Mas Selamat Kastari is back in custody is good news for Southeast Asia, and a testimony of Singapore-Malaysia cooperation.
But it seems to have resulted in the controlled media of the two countries giving different slants of the arrest, so we'll have to wait for the official versions to know the truth.
Here are some of the conflicting versions reported in their largest newspapers - The Star and The Straits Times – apparently after talking to official sources.
(1) Joint operation?
Straits Times: Sources told The Straits Times that Mas Selamat was tracked down based on intelligence provided by Singapore’s Internal Security Department (ISD), and a joint operation by Malaysia and Singapore’s security agencies eventually led to his arrest.
The Star: The fugitive, who escaped from a Singapore maximum security detention centre (with two other suspects) was arrested in Johor by Malaysian Special Branch officers with the help of other police departments here. No mention of a joint operation with Singapore.
Who is right? Was it a joint operation or a Malaysian one? For consideration: it is possible that the Malaysians do not want to tell their people that Singaporean Special branch was operating with them in Johor - if indeed it did happen.
(2) Intelligence gathering
Straits Times: Sources told The Straits Times that Mas Selamat was tracked down based on intelligence provided by Singapore’s ISD.
The Star: The sharing of information between three countries - Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia - has led to the arrest of Kastari who was hiding in Johor.
Translation: Unlike the Straits Times report, intelligence had not come from Singapore alone, but from Indonesia as well.
In addition there’s also the reward of S$1 million - offered for information leading to Kastari’s capture - to consider. Who will get it?
‘Return to Singapore’
There are potential obstacles to remove before Kastari can eb returned to continue his detention in Singapore.
While Singapore's government-controlled Channel News Asia (CNA) reported that Kastari is likely "to be returned to Singapore soon" the Malaysians are giving no indications of this.
Instead their Home Minister, Hishamuddin Hussein, said it would depend on bilateral talks, implying that it is something to negotiate over.
Mas Selamat is now under Malaysia's own Internal Security Act (ISA). "He is under our detention and is being investigated right now. He was planning something which allows us to arrest him," he said.
The implication is that Kuala Lumpur may have grounds to detain him for its own security reasons.
If - only a remote if – the investigation were to turn up evidence that the 48-year-old suspect was plotting terrorism in Malaysia during the past year, he might possibly remain under Malaysian detention.
That would put Singapore in an embarrassing situation of seeing escaped detainee remaining outside its grasp.
The Singapore government, especially Home Affairs Minister, Wong Kan Seng, whose is blamed for Kastri's incredible escape 13 months ago, obviously wants Kastari back as quickly as possible.
The Malaysians, on the other hand, appear not to see any urgency in releasing their prize catch. Unless, of course, they can extract some benefits from it!
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Latest updates at Singapore News Alternative:
1. Singapore - haven for money and fugitives
2. Singapore officials embarrassed by capture of terror suspect who left behind pants to hide escape
3. Taiwan can ink FTA with Singapore: President Ma Ying-jeou
4. Political implications of Mas Selamat’s re-arrest
5. AWARE Saga - A Trial Run For Post-Lee Kuan Yew Era
6. Mas Selamat's Arrest Kept Secret To Safeguard Operation ..
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Selamat really has guts by staying so close to SG and reported to work
by selling hambagurs in night stalls!!
He should know there are many Singaporeans or their families visit
JB,even a ulu village.He may be spotted and leading to his arrest!!
In facts,he has few great lucks--
1.Escaped from toilets when the guards just outside
and climbed out of the detention center.Thanks to the stupid design of the center.
2.He was damn good by making his way to sea side opposite JB,from center
of SG to north shore!!
3.He was damn good by crossing the strait without detected.
4.He was damn good making his way to a safe place and settled.
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I think he would commit sucide after he would find a place where
his body would not be recovered!!
This will leave a legend forever !!
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However ,it seems he thinks he is very good to escape detection.
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Originally posted by lionnoisy:
Selamat really has guts by staying so close to SG and reported to work
by selling hambagurs in night stalls!!
He should know there are many Singaporeans or their families visit
JB,even a ulu village.He may be spotted and leading to his arrest!!
In facts,he has few great lucks--
1.Escaped from toilets when the guards just outside
and climbed out of the detention center.Thanks to the stupid design of the center.
2.He was damn good by making his way to sea side opposite JB,from center
of SG to north shore!!
3.He was damn good by crossing the strait without detected.
4.He was damn good making his way to a safe place and settled.
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I think he would commit sucide after he would find a place where
his body would not be recovered!!
This will leave a legend forever !!
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However ,it seems he thinks he is very good to escape detection.
Ermmm.......
It's not that Mas is good, it's just that the Home Affairs Ministry is screwed, what'd you expect from a Head of Dept. who goes on the news to tell you that "Mas is either in Singapore or outside of Singapore".
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Contrary to an earlier point stating that Mas Selamat crossed the causeway, in fact he did not. He swam cross the straits to Johor.
I remembered that coast guards were able to see illegal immigrants swimming under a foam box using infra-red. Unless MSK is cold-blooded which he could well be.
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No more playing with his photographs le.
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Originally posted by Mimmy:
No more playing with his photographs le.
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it is funny how he can escape a tiny dot, but caught in the vastness of Malaysia still intrigues me.
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Originally posted by Socialist:
it is funny how he can escape a tiny dot, but caught in the vastness of Malaysia still intrigues me.
I recall some reports saying that they set up a lot of sentry posts along the singapore coastline manned by army and police personnel after MS escaped.
I guess for one year, these personnel were all wasting their time since MS was already in Malaysia.
One year of staring at the deep blue sea.
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who gets the credit is not as impt as who gets the million $ reward. The capture: Who gets the credit? Kastari’s arrest and the claim for top credits: Who provided the crucial intelligence, and when will he be returned to Singapore? By Seah Chiang Nee, littlespeck.com May 8, 2009 That the dangerous Mas Selamat Kastari is back in custody is good news for Southeast Asia, and a testimony of Singapore-Malaysia cooperation. But it seems to have resulted in the controlled media of the two countries giving different slants of the arrest, so we'll have to wait for the official versions to know the truth. Here are some of the conflicting versions reported in their largest newspapers - The Star and The Straits Times – apparently after talking to official sources. (1) Joint operation? Straits Times: Sources told The Straits Times that Mas Selamat was tracked down based on intelligence provided by Singapore’s Internal Security Department (ISD), and a joint operation by Malaysia and Singapore’s security agencies eventually led to his arrest. The Star: The fugitive, who escaped from a Singapore maximum security detention centre (with two other suspects) was arrested in Johor by Malaysian Special Branch officers with the help of other police departments here. No mention of a joint operation with Singapore. Who is right? Was it a joint operation or a Malaysian one? For consideration: it is possible that the Malaysians do not want to tell their people that Singaporean Special branch was operating with them in Johor - if indeed it did happen. (2) Intelligence gathering Straits Times: Sources told The Straits Times that Mas Selamat was tracked down based on intelligence provided by Singapore’s ISD. The Star: The sharing of information between three countries - Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia - has led to the arrest of Kastari who was hiding in Johor. Translation: Unlike the Straits Times report, intelligence had not come from Singapore alone, but from Indonesia as well. In addition there’s also the reward of S$1 million - offered for information leading to Kastari’s capture - to consider. Who will get it? ‘Return to Singapore’ There are potential obstacles to remove before Kastari can eb returned to continue his detention in Singapore. While Singapore's government-controlled Channel News Asia (CNA) reported that Kastari is likely "to be returned to Singapore soon" the Malaysians are giving no indications of this. Instead their Home Minister, Hishamuddin Hussein, said it would depend on bilateral talks, implying that it is something to negotiate over. Mas Selamat is now under Malaysia's own Internal Security Act (ISA). "He is under our detention and is being investigated right now. He was planning something which allows us to arrest him," he said. The implication is that Kuala Lumpur may have grounds to detain him for its own security reasons. If - only a remote if – the investigation were to turn up evidence that the 48-year-old suspect was plotting terrorism in Malaysia during the past year, he might possibly remain under Malaysian detention. That would put Singapore in an embarrassing situation of seeing escaped detainee remaining outside its grasp. The Singapore government, especially Home Affairs Minister, Wong Kan Seng, whose is blamed for Kastri's incredible escape 13 months ago, obviously wants Kastari back as quickly as possible. The Malaysians, on the other hand, appear not to see any urgency in releasing their prize catch. Unless, of course, they can extract some benefits from it! By Seah Chiang Nee
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Why would the Malaysian want to negotiate for MSK return to Singapore ?
What possibly could they want from Singapore ?
Will they ask for the demolition of the Causeway and replace it with the long sought after bridge that connect their poorly located Johor Bahru Immigration Centre to allow for some sense of proper traffic flow ?
Will that be too high a price for Singapore to pay for MSK return to ISD captivity - as the bridge will require Singapore to bear half the cost of construction for our half of the new bridge that will be of a suspension design ?
If a price has to be paid for the return of MSK to Singapore's custody, it speaks poorly of the security co-operation between Malaysia and Singapore.
PM LHL will surely have the opportunity to fulfill his Election 2006 dream of fixing those who has put him in a Fix.
MSK will surely be paying a heavy price for his escapade.
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Originally posted by deepak.c:
Ermmm.......
It's not that Mas is good, it's just that the Home Affairs Ministry is screwed, what'd you expect from a Head of Dept. who goes on the news to tell you that "Mas is either in Singapore or outside of Singapore".
Maybe he's in Mars or floating in the sky all this while? So WKS has got to be very very clear.
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Originally posted by Atobe:
This is the latest photo of chubby MAS taken by the Malaysian Authorities on the day of his arrest on 1 April 2009.
Could he have been identified by the ill informed kampung Malaysians ?
The Singapore Authorities could have given several possible appearances that MAS would have taken in some kind of ID foto fit kit to help everyone to spot him.
wah... can consider writng an autobiography.
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Originally posted by Atobe:
Why would the Malaysian want to negotiate for MSK return to Singapore ?
What possibly could they want from Singapore ?
Will they ask for the demolition of the Causeway and replace it with the long sought after bridge that connect their poorly located Johor Bahru Immigration Centre to allow for some sense of proper traffic flow ?
Will that be too high a price for Singapore to pay for MSK return to ISD captivity - as the bridge will require Singapore to bear half the cost of construction for our half of the new bridge that will be of a suspension design ?
If a price has to be paid for the return of MSK to Singapore's custody, it speaks poorly of the security co-operation between Malaysia and Singapore.
PM LHL will surely have the opportunity to fulfill his Election 2006 dream of fixing those who has put him in a Fix.
MSK will surely be paying a heavy price for his escapade.
maybe ask singapore to give pedra branca over to malaysia
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MSK was caught in an area known to be a breeding ground for JI - it looks as if the breeding ground continue to exist to breed new threats.
HIDEOUT NEAR JI BREEDING GROUND
KUALA LUMPUR: - While he was on the run, Mas Selamat Kastari found refuge in Skudai, a sprawling working-class town in Johor that many Singaporeans frequent for its Giant supermarket.
Malaysia's official news agency Bernama yesterday quoted a Special Branch source as saying Singapore's most-wanted terrorist was caught in the town, which is 25km north-west of Johor Baru and near Senai Airport. 'He has relatives in Skudai,' said the source.
About 15km away, across the North-South highway, is Ulu Tiram, another small town but notorious for being a breeding ground for Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terrorists.
A defunct religious school which groomed JI agents is located in the area, a place familiar to Mas Selamat, a JI leader of the Singapore terror network, as he spent time there some time in the 1990s.
Yesterday, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak told reporters that the fugitive managed to enter Malaysia 'a few days' after escaping from the Whitley Road Detention Centre in Singapore.
His capture had taken place around the same time that the Malaysian authorities had nabbed three other people for suspected JI-linked activities.
They arrested Agus Salim, a 32-year-old Indonesian, on March 5, and two Malaysians, Abdul Matin Anol Rahmat, 60, and Johar Hassan, on April 1.
While the authorities yesterday refused to confirm if the three were linked to Mas Selamat, the timing of the arrests has raised speculation over whether all four were collaborating with one another in the alleged terror plot.
Mas Selamat was also nabbed on April 1 and the Star daily yesterday, quoting sources, said Malaysia's Special Branch had been on his trail for a month.
The Abolish ISA Movement, a group which calls for the Malaysian government to repeal the ISA, said Abdul Matin is the father-in-law of ex-ISA detainee Zaini Zakaria who was released late last year.
Mr Zaini, a suspected JI member, was an engineer allegedly recruited by Al-Qaeda to pilot a plane in a second wave of Sept 11-style attacks on the United States.
He was supposed to have travelled to in Afghanistan in 1999 and met senior figures in Al-Qaeda. He had a licence to fly a small plane but severed his ties with Al-Qaeda after he saw media coverage of the Sept 11 attacks, said reports.
Agus Salim was a cook in a restaurant at Larkin, Johor. According to reports here, his arrest was captured on video by the police, raising questions about whether Mas Selamat's arrest was also captured on video.
Abdul Matin was apprehended by 12 policemen in an operation around 7.30pm on April 1 in Johor Baru, said Chinese publication Merdeka Review in an April 17 report.
There has been no information on Johar Hassan.
Sources told The Straits Times that the trail that led to the arrests of Abdul Matin and Johar on April 1 also led to the capture of Mas Selamat on the same night.
At a press conference yesterday, Malaysian Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said Mas Selamat 'was planning something which allows us to arrest him'.
He declined to elaborate, including on when the fugitive would be handed over to Singapore, adding: 'I can't go into the details, it is too sensitive...This is something that I don't want to jeopardise.'
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Ha ha ha, possible for a determined and trained terrorist to enter and leave Singapore undetected, said Goh chok tong. ---> What a joke! There is something very wrong with the security sysem in Singapore. goh tried to cover up or what . . . . .. . besides Mas Selamat, we have two people entered and left Singapore without the knowledge of Immgration, ha ha ha. Paid millions yet can't do a good job.
SM Goh says threat of terrorism remains real
By Cheryl Lim, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 10 May 2009 1743 hrsSINGAPORE: Singapore's Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong said on Sunday that although Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) leader Mas Selamat Kastari has been captured, the threat of terrorism remains very real.
He said the fact that Mas Selamat was able to swim to Johor Bahru, despite Singapore's tightened border security following his escape from Whitley Road Detention Centre in February last year, showed that it is possible for a determined and trained terrorist to enter and leave Singapore undetected.
Mr Goh, who is currently warded in the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) for chicken pox, said fighting terrorism is like fighting an external virus like SARS or Influenza A (H1N1).
Despite our best efforts, a terrorist or deadly virus may slip through our borders.
Mr Goh said the best defence against terrorism is to always be vigilant and to maintain a domestic environment that is hostile to violence.
The senior minister is expected to be discharged from SGH later this week.
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Originally posted by Fantagf:
Ha ha ha, possible for a determined and trained terrorist to enter and leave Singapore undetected, said Goh chok tong. ---> What a joke! There is something very wrong with the security sysem in Singapore. goh tried to cover up or what . . . . .. . besides Mas Selamat, we have two people entered and left Singapore without the knowledge of Immgration, ha ha ha. Paid millions yet can't do a good job.
SM Goh says threat of terrorism remains real
By Cheryl Lim, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 10 May 2009 1743 hrsSINGAPORE: Singapore's Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong said on Sunday that although Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) leader Mas Selamat Kastari has been captured, the threat of terrorism remains very real.
He said the fact that Mas Selamat was able to swim to Johor Bahru, despite Singapore's tightened border security following his escape from Whitley Road Detention Centre in February last year, showed that it is possible for a determined and trained terrorist to enter and leave Singapore undetected.
Mr Goh, who is currently warded in the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) for chicken pox, said fighting terrorism is like fighting an external virus like SARS or Influenza A (H1N1).
Despite our best efforts, a terrorist or deadly virus may slip through our borders.
Mr Goh said the best defence against terrorism is to always be vigilant and to maintain a domestic environment that is hostile to violence.
The senior minister is expected to be discharged from SGH later this week.
- CNA/sowho are those 2?
first thought in my mind were the 3 jokers who landed in tekong from malaysia, lol