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Mas Selamat's 2001 escape, 17 tonnes and preaching to the converted
This post was initially motivated by the question: Just how dangerous is Mas Selamat and what is the threat posed by his escape? Re-reading the Jemaah Islamiyah White Paper (released 7 Jan 2003) for the official threat assessment, I was then reminded that Mas Selamat had previously managed to flee before the Internal Security Department's Dec 2001 dragnet. It seems that he had been on the run for more than a year before it was announced, in Feb 2003, that he had been detained by the Indonesian authorities. After three years, Mas Selamat was finally deported back to Singapore in Feb 2006. So this isn't the first time that he has slipped through the ISD's fingers. Wong Kan Seng Resignation TheatreI should say, from the outset, that I do not agree with the calls for Mr Wong Kan Seng to resign over Mas Selamat's escape from the Whitley Road Detention Centre (WRDC). This probably reflects the conditioning from my time working in the civil service that has remained surprisingly intact even though I resi
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