Mas Selamat Kastari, Singapore's Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) leader who escaped from Whitley Road Detention Centre on February 27 last year, has been arrested.
The terrorist, who once plotted to hijack a plane and crash it into Changi Airport, was arrested in Malaysia in a joint intelligence operation involving the internal security agencies of the two countries on April 1 but had been under interrogation in Malaysia.
Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng said the fugitive fled to Johor Bahru using an improvised flotation device.
He will soon be brought back to Singapore and will be sent once again to the Whitley Detention Centre.
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Malaysia gives Singapore's ISD access to Mas Selamat Updated: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:30:44
SINGAPORE: Malaysia has given Singapore's Internal Security Department access to captured Jemaah Islamiyah leader, Mas Selamat Kastari. Full Story
