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Example of terrorism:6thmar -Who? Mas Selamat bin Kastari
-When? 27 February 2008
-Where? Escaped from detention under the country's Internal Security Act
-Who is Mas selamat?
Mas selamat is the latest terrorist whom everyone is hunting down for. He was born on 23 January 1961 and moved to a flat in Bedok Reservoir and became married with five children.
-His involvement in JI
He was the head of the Singapore branch of militant group Jemaah Islamiah (JI) who was believed to begin his involvement in the 1990 when he joined Darul Islam precusor movement to the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) group. By 1992, he had joined the Singapore JI cell and was sent to Afghanistan for training a year later. In 1998, he studied the Taleban system of government returned home 'deeply impressed .Mas Selamat was said that he had met Hambali, the leader of JI, and discussed various terror plots including hijacking a plane from Bangkok and crash it into the Singapore Changi airport .He escaped from Singapore in 2001 before authorities conducted a massive operation to arrest 13 suspected JI members in December 2001.
Arrests
Mas Selamat had been arrested in February 2003 in the island of Bin tan to assist Indonesian police in their investigations of several bombings in Indonesia in 2001 and 2002. He changed his identity to the name of Edy Heriyanto and obtained an Indonesian passport. Found in his possession were literature on making bombs and the virtue on suicide. He was being jailed for 18 months in 2003 for immigration offences. During this period of imprisonment, he broke his left leg in a botched attempt to escape when he jumped from a high floor, resulting him walking in a permanent limp.
On 20 January 2006, he was arrested again for using a fake identity card in Java, where he was visiting his son who was said to be studying at a religious school there. Singapore requested for his extradition and he was handed over to Singapore on February 3, 2006. Mas Selamat is detained in Singapore under the Internal Security Act without trial.
-His escape
At 4.05p.m. Wednesday 27 February 2008, he made an escaped from where he was being detained. His family was visiting him at that time and he was being led to a room to meet them while he asked to go to the toilet. It was then he fled.
POLICE ASSUMED THAT MAS SELAMAT IS STILL IN SINGAPORE AND HE IS ACTING ALONE
Without help, money and transport and given the tightened security checks and controls on all border checkpoints and the coastline, he is unlikely to have fled Singapore. Said Police Assistant Commissioner Wong Hong KuanDone by:Jazzline and Liyong