Singapore has detained a 20-year-old army trainee who wanted to fight with Islamic militants in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Iraq, the government said Tuesday.Muhammad Fadil bin Abdul Hamid, a Singaporean, was detained in April under the country's tough Internal Security Act, which allows for detention without trial, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said.
The suspect, who was serving his mandatory two-year military service, had been "deeply radicalised by the lectures of radical ideologues such as Anwar al-Awlaki and Sheikh Feiz Muhammad," the MHA said in a press statement. Full Story
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