THE TEMASEK REVIEW

PoThePanda:

Oh,so now Singapore did not provide the intelligence information lah?

LOL @ WKS.

argh!:

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! WKS TIO OWNED! ! (by the last line!!!!)

Cross Bearer:

Now its clearer, ie the incompletence, and not complancency, of the Police and other security organisations.

There were 4 long days and nights to recapture him.

It is also almost certain he had external help.

There should be evidence on the ground for that, eg dog losing scent, although I have seen dogs trailing people travelling on vehicles.

And the Police must know this fact from the onset, or did they eliminated this option for face sake?

And there also ought to be evidence how and who he communicated with in the outside world. He couldnt be using ESP could he?

Perhaps ISD was slow to admit this possibility to save their face, again, eg the implication of an insider, and so again losing a crucial time critical lead.

He was holed up in various places.

I recall stumbling upon a Thai prostitute den in some clumps of trees around Woodlands. The women I saw were probably illegal immigrants. They told me I had better leave as bad Thai men will beat me up if they saw me there.

I am not sure if the Police were aware of such habitations, or even if they were, were motivated to do anything about it. And I am sure that was not the only one in Singapore.

MSK could be in these places, or elsewhere. There could be many such holes available in Singapore.

If MSK was picked up by a vehicle, eg motorcycle, outside the detention centre, then he could have been anywhere in SG during the elapsed time.

Then you can only hermetically seal the “porous” borders and try to squeeze from whatever sources to discern with whom he had made his escape plans, and what these are, if ISD have concluded this was the case. If not then then time was lost.

Of course I am presuming that the “facts” are true, and that MSK confessed truthfully too. As alluded somewhere, MSK could be lieing about the flotation thingy to cover up for the one who actually helped him across. Maybe it is Mat Gajah who helped him across.

For actually from Stulang to Skudai, or Ulu Tiram, it is still a long way away. He too need someone on the other side to help him.

So perhaps we may never know the truth after all.

Cross Bearer:

To Alwin Loi,

WKS dont have to clarify the last statement.

It is an obvious thing.

It is only that Singaporeans read into the “joint operations” to be an operation involving combined SG and MY forces on the ground, which could have been ST’s, ie gahmen, intention. (And no one in the press conference asked these sort of questions, do they?) It will hardly ever be the case. Only possibly the UK and US may have done such ops.

But WKS must say “joint operations”, even if the jointness was only for sharing some intelligence (which at the point of sharing surely was of tentative use), so that SG have some credit for MSK’s recapture.

And it was just luck it happen the intel was useful. If not then the story will have another spin.

Police Insider:

BL asked, “My god, he was in SG for 4 days after he escaped! What is our HOME team doing?”

Obviously, damage control, ie of their reputations and careers. You think what?

Rainnix:

See how sugar-coated half truths Singapore MSM are. Uses the same report but omit crucial points that shame WKS and his home team. And reporters wonders why there are so many jeers at MSK capture.

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_376163.html

WANTED terrorist Mas Selamat Kastari had holed up in several places in Singapore for as many as four days after he slipped out of the Whitely Road detention centre on Feb 27 last year, according to a Bernama report.

Despite a massive island-wide manhunt in Singapore, he managed to get to Woodlands on the fourth day and swam across the Tebrau Strait towards Stulang Laut under the cover of darkness with buoy lights as a guide.

‘He used the buoy lights, which mark the border at the Tebrau Strait, as his guide to reach the place where he thought he could find a refuge,’ a source who is familiar with the operation to nab the fugitive told Bernama on Tuesday.

Mas Selamat’s ability to evade arrest despite the massive manhunt, with thousands of security personnel combing the island and coastal areas, was still a mystery until today, the source said.

After more than a year on the run, the Singapore Jemaah Islamiah terror leader was captured by Malaysian Special Branch in a dawn raid on a kampung house in Skudai, Johor Baru, on April 1. He is being held under in an undisclosed location in Malaysia for interrogation.

His escape from the prison embarrassed Singapore, which, apart from launching an islandwide manhunt, also tightened security in all entry points but found no trace of Mas Selamat even as days, weeks and months went by.

The source said that despite every possibility of bumping into security forces deployed to track him down, Mas Selamat managed to reach Woodlands – a journey that would have taken him across densely populated areas.

The security in Woodlands is no less tight because it is the main checkpoints for the hundreds of thousands commuters going to and coming from the Johor Causeway. He said the Singapore authorities had also tightened security in Tebrau Strait in anticipation of Mas Selamat making a dash across the narrow waterway.

The Singapore coast guard, he said, stationed boats in every one kilometre along the sea border, a proof of how tight the security had been. But no amount of tight security managed to stop the elusive Mas Selamat from fleeing the island. To reach Stulang Laut, Mas Selamat would have swam in between the patrolling boats.

On reaching Stulang Laut, Mas Selamat met his trusted friends Abdul Matin in Ulu Tiram and Johar Hassan who lived in a village in Skudai, Johor Baharu. — BERNAMA

gambit:

buoy lights?? wow that is soo hard to spot at night