The Kent Ridge Common, 9 May 2009, Kelvin Teo
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?
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