China View
12 Mar 2008
Zhang Yongxing and Zheng Xiaoyi
SINGAPORE, March 12 (Xinhua) -- Currently, the Singapore authorities have done their best in a nationwide manhunt for Mas Selamat Kastari, leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) network in Singapore, who escaped from the country's Whitley road detention center on February 27.
Singapore accused the 47-year-old Mas Selamat of plotting to hijack a plane in order to crash it into the Changi Airport in 2001. He fled the city-state in 2001 and lived in neighboring Indonesia's Riau islands before he was nabbed by the Indonesian police in 2003 for violating the country's immigration laws. He was sent back to Singapore in 2006, and had since then been detained under the internal security act that allows for detention without trial.
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