Originally posted by
noisylion
there is no point in be top 3 bunkering hub if u cannot handle a
terrorist in your dentention center:
...QUOTE
SHE was enjoying her usual evening jog when she saw the Whitley
Road area swarming with armed police officers.
Ms Samantha Wong, 44, was surprised when a police officer
approached her and showed her a photocopied picture of a man and
asked if she had seen him.
'I was told he had escaped and that he was short and walked with
a limp,' said Ms Wong, who lives in the area.
She said she was shocked by the news, but did not recognise the
man's face.
She would later find out that he was Singapore's most wanted
man.
ESCAPE
Jemaah Islamiah (JI) detainee Mas Selamat Kastari, 45, escaped
from the Whitley Road Detention Centre at 4.05pm yesterday and, at
press time, was on the run.
The police immediately mounted a massive manhunt in the
area.
It is understood that checks were also made at the Tuas and
Woodlands immigration checkpoints.
At the Tuas checkpoint around 6pm, student Tan Thiam Chye, 25,
said all immigration clearance was stopped for about 15 minutes,
causing a traffic build-up.
'Immigration officers were holding a picture of a man and they
were passing it around,' said Mr Tan, who was on his way to Johor
on a bus.
Mas Selamat, who walks with a limp, is not known to be armed,
the Ministry of Home Affairs said in a press release yesterday.
He had led the Singapore JI network and was among five JI
members detained here under the Internal Security Act in 2006.
He had even plotted to hit Changi Airport with a hijacked
plane.
By 6pm, across the highway from the Whitley Detention Centre,
just behind Catholic Junior College, police were moving into the
quiet estate.
Gurkhas and armed officers withred berets, wearing bullet-proof
vests, with kukris around their waists and holding revolvers, lined
Malcolm Road, Mount Rosie Road, Mount Pleasant Road and Whitley
Road.
There were also more than 20 police vehicles along those roads,
including Special Operations Command vehicles, fast response saloon
cars, Toyota Hi-Lux sport utility vehicles and blue buses.
The New Paper also spotted police along the Pan-Island
Expressway towards Onraet Road.
Officers holding maps were seen instructing their teams to move
into certain areas.
They stopped several joggers between 6pm and 7pm to ask them if
they had seen the fugitive.
The police line in the Whitley area, with police officers spaced
about 10m apart, went as far as Chancery Lane and Goldhill Avenue,
near Barker Road, onto Dunearn Road.
Car washers at the Esso petrol station outside St Joseph's
Institution were curious when a Special Operations Command vehicle
pulled up outside their car wash station at 7pm.
They had no idea what was going on.
At about 7.50pm, when a group of students going to the bus stop
asked the police what was happening, they were simply told that it
was 'an operation'.
Officers were also seen knocking on doors, asking residents if
they had seen the man.
Madam Chang Wen Wen, 53, who lives near the junction of Bukit
Timah Road and Stevens Road, immediately alerted her daughter to
return home early.
She said: 'Naturally we have to be extra cautious.
'I wonder how this could have
happened in Singapore because I thought we have a very tight
security system.'
The public have been advised to immediately call the
police on 999 if they know of Mas Selamat's
whereabouts.
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if one man can escape tru the
security pple we spend millions to set up, what will happen to our
bunkering hub?
will this:
become a big esplosion?
