JI Leader Mas Selamat Escaped From Detention Centre

last SG · 2008-02-27T22:48:34+00:00

Game over. Watch the ch8 news?? good job

weiqimun SG

12k alot meh?

imagine u pow tow a terrorist leader and put him back in jail.

remember he 'escaped' from a secure facility. bringing suspicion of insider assistance.

insiders can get your personal info along with those of your family and pass it to his gang.

12k can buy how many coffins?

u did not understand what i wrote. it is also not my job to enlighten you.

peace out.

QX179R SG

Channel NewsAsia - 35 minutes ago

SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Home Affairs has responded to queries from the Workers’ Party, regarding the Committee of Inquiry into Mas Selamat Kastari’s escape from detention.

According to the ministry, Deputy Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng has said that after the inquiry is completed, the public will get a full account of how Mas Selamat escaped and what has been done to tighten security to prevent a repeat of such incident.

In a statement to the media, the chairman of the Workers’ Party Sylvia Lim had asked if the public will be given full information as the committee is convened under the Prisons Act.

She said under the Act, such inquiries are not open to the public and that no part of the proceedings may be released to anyone without the minister’s written permission. — CNA/ac

Caitaokue SG

Why can't they accept and assume that selamat is now overseas? All the focus have been on home ground and that is embarassing with all resources deployed to locate him in small country. We are telling the world how incompetent we are.

What are the efforts made so far to track him overseas? Is it as full fledged as it is on home ground?

If I were him, I weren't even remained in Indonesia. I am on my way to meet or already dinning with Bin Laden. The AQ will keep him at their quarters and will not deploy him on battle-ground for the next 10 years. But they will make use of his knowledge and information. He is a highly prized intel to the terrorists and he poses more danger to singapore with the information he holds.

He might not care if his family is still in singapore. What motivates a terrorist to sacrifice his life is the belief that his soul will go direct to heaven if he died in the name of allah.

As the saying goes, "what didn't kill you, make you stronger". So, singapore embraced yourself together and be prepared for the worst. There is one more reason to kick the ruling party out if anything happens to Singapore.

maurizio13 SG

Happy 2 weeks anniversary to Mas Selemat Kastari!!!

Happy 2 weeks anniversary to SPF, SAF and Gurhka!!!

ceecookie SG

It may be due to internal cowardice policies

Short Ninja SG

Happy 2 weeks anniversary to Mas Selemat Kastari!!!

Happy 2 weeks anniversary to SPF, SAF and Gurhka!!!

This could go down in Singapore history as the biggest and longest Saikang law enforcement/Security operation.Just wondering how many people still believe that Mas Selamat is on his own ?

mark3 SG

Minster Mentor Lee names complacency and Mas Selamat’s cleverness in deceptively winning the trust of his captors as factors in his escape.

Michael Crichton, in the introduction to his book “The Great Train Robbery”, cites studies of prison populations that show that inmates equal the general public in intelligence tests – and yet they are only that fraction of lawbreakers who are caught. Needless to say, those who manage to stay free are of superior minds. Crichton then tells the true story of one such mastermind at work.

Being the leader of a criminal organisation, Mas Selamat would have intelligence above average. The likelihood then is that he would have been able to outsmart his immediate guards. For people of matching or higher intelligence would not have been assigned routine-type guard duties in the first place.

So some safeguards are needed. The guards’ supervisors, and their superiors, must have the ability to see through the tricks and guises of their captives; and they must make it a point to regularly monitor the interactions between captor and captive. Also, there have to be constant rotation of the guards for each captive to prevent any captive from gaining the slightest psychological control over his captor. A further measure is to deliberately disrupt every routine once in a while in random to prevent set patterns.

Whether these measures were already in place, or are indeed necessary, we would have to wait for the commissioner of inquiry’s report to be out.

Generally, people who succeed against high odds are not just intelligent; they are also highly determined and disciplined. In a criminal mind, these three traits are a lethal combination.

In the fight against terrorism, authorities worldwide seem to be forever chasing the lizard’s tail – banning steel cutlery after September 11, requiring young and old to remove their shoes after the shoe-bomber, throwing barricades around bars after Bali, heavily-armed guards conspicuously strolling through train stations after London, and forbidding mothers with babies from carrying bottled water aboard after learning of liquid-bomb plots. Authorities just do not seem to be getting ahead in the game in anticipating new scenarios.

Short of complacency, Mas Selamat’s escape, September 11 and so on, could be a case of underestimating the enemy – a case of not giving enough regard to top criminals’ intelligence, their will, their guts, and their imagination.

HyperFocal SG

... it will soon be 2 WEEKS since MSK squeezed himself out of the toilet at the dentention center... and to date, the authorities declared they still have NO CLEAR IDEA how & what happened... unbelievable!

... no men or dogs could track him down, no amount of time spent could flush him out of hiding, this can only mean two things:

>> He's already left Singapore

>> He was already dead in the first place (killed or murdered during detention) and all this is one Mother of all Cover Ups

natural_boy SG

... no men or dogs could track him down, no amount of time spent could flush him out of hiding, this can only mean two things:

>> He's already left Singapore

>> He was already dead in the first place (killed or murdered during detention) and all this is one Mother of all Cover Ups

this is wat my fren told me also.

can u imagine wat will happen if the gahbermen said,

ji leader mas selamat is dead during detention.

HyperFocal SG

this is wat my fren told me also.

can u imagine wat will happen if the gahbermen said,

ji leader mas selamat is dead during detention.

... I think, common sense tells us all, that if he was indeed truly killed or died by some cause while under custody and denied any trail, all Singaporeans abroad will immediately be in danger...

... why else would the govt spend so much time, money, and effort to cover this up with a lame Toilet Breakout..???

Short Ninja SG

As we hunger for the latest news on every alternate days someone would step out say the same old thing over and over again from WKS=> LKY=> LHL=> Yah we already know that there was a lapse in security but what we want to know is the part after the toilet part=> ??????? if the toilet story is real.

rey619 SG

Everything King Midas touches turnes to gold. Everything Rey Mysterio touches turns up dead.

Short Ninja SG

Everything King Midas touches turnes to gold. Everything Rey Mysterio touches turns up dead.

touch your head!

rey619 SG

touch your head!

Rey Mysterio once shot an enemy plane down with his finger, by yelling, "Bang!"

Short Ninja SG

Rey Mysterio once shot an enemy plane down with his finger, by yelling, "Bang!"

Bang! your own backside!

Short Ninja SG

with your toe!

rey619 SG

with your toe!

Rey Mysterio once played Russian roulette with a fully load gun and won.

QX179R SG

Channel NewsAsia - 1 hour 12 minutes ago

SINGAPORE : Singapore authorities have received more than 1,100 tips from the public in its manhunt for an alleged terrorist leader who escaped jail two weeks ago, police said on Wednesday.

Mas Selamat bin Kastari, the alleged leader of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) which was blamed for deadly attacks including the 2002 Bali bombings, vanished on February 27 after asking to use the toilet in the Whitley detention centre.

More than 1,100 phoned—in tips had been received from the public as of Monday after police appealed for information on Mas Selamat, police director of operations Wong Hong Kuan told AFP.

A number of false alarms have been triggered by information that Indonesia—born Mas Selamat walks with a limp. People have also sent in tips via e—mail.

Security forces were still conducting searches almost island—wide, with a focus on forested tracts, though it was not "neglecting the urban built—up areas," Wong told AFP.

The search involving police, the military and the Gurkha soldiers is the biggest manhunt in the history of Singapore. Pictures of the wanted man have been plastered across Singapore and even sent to mobile phone subscribers.

Security forces in neighbouring Indonesia and Malaysia were also on the lookout for Mas Selamat, but Singapore insists that he is unlikely to have fled the country.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Sunday that Singapore remained optimistic it can capture him. Mr Lee said: "I’ve been talking to the ministers responsible and I think we have a pretty good chance of catching him, provided he’s still in Singapore."

Meanwhile, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said Singapore should brace itself for an attack if Mas Selamat manages to flee Singapore and rejoin his JI comrades.

47—year—old Mas Selamat was accused of plotting to hijack a plane in order to crash it into Changi Airport in 2001, but he was never charged in court. He was being held under an internal security law that allows for detention without trial.

Interpol has issued an international red alert for Mas Selamat. — AFP/vm

MohamedF SG

Rey Mysterio once played Russian roulette with a fully load gun and won.

Not wanting to infringe copyright law, Ray Mysterio escaped Whitely Detention center thru the urinal...

maurizio13 SG

The Whitley Road Detention Centre according to Francis Seow.

Maybe you can get a clearer copy from Amazon or elsewhere.

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