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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (94034)	1/11/2002 3:03:53 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Thanks for the news. Whats SGF? Tim

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (94034)	1/12/2002 11:10:58 AM
From: Knighty Tin	Respond to of 132070

To All, More terrorists in Malaysia. Singapore is not using kid gloves on these guys. Go Chalk Tongue! <g> Singapore PM Warns on Terrorists 01/12/2002 10:38 AM EST Email this Story By DEAN VISSER SINGAPORE (AP) - Singapore's prime minister said Saturday more al-Qaida-linked terrorists may be at large, while authorities in neighboring Malaysia announced the arrests of two suspected members of a group believed to have ties to a thwarted plot in Singapore. It was the first time the Malaysian government has linked the Malaysian group to the 13 people detained in Singapore for allegedly plotting to blow up Western embassies, U.S. Navy ships and American companies in the city-state, which borders Malaysia to the south. The Singapore government described the plot in chilling detail on Friday, saying some of the militants trained in Afghanistan with al-Qaida, which is widely blamed for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. On Saturday, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong warned the crackdown may have missed "quite a few members" of the group. "We cannot say that we have discovered everything," Goh said. "We must work on the assumption that there may be more cells." All 13 men are members of a group called Jemaah Islamiyah, which is part of a larger network with cells in neighboring Malaysia and Indonesia, the government news release said. Twelve are Singapore citizens, and one is a Malaysian, it said. The prime minister of Malaysia was quoted as saying Saturday that authorities in his country believe the Singapore cell has ties to a Malaysian group of Muslim militants involved with al-Qaida. His comments came as police announced the arrests of another two suspected members of the group, known as the Kumpulan Mujahiddin Malaysia, or KMM. (AP) This is a compilation of government handout photos of 13 suspected terrorists with links to... Full Image Fifteen people have been arrested in Malaysia since December in connection with the KMM, which police say also has links to Muslim militant groups in Indonesia and the Philippines. "I believe Singapore is also (linked) ... but I do not have the facts," Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was quoted as saying by the national news agency, Bernama. The Singapore terrorist cell was targeting "prominent members of the American community" in Singapore and public places in the city-state, the Singapore government said in a news release Friday. The militants, arrested in December, had four tons of the explosive chemical ammonium nitrate stored in Malaysia and were seeking another 17 tons to make truck bombs, the government said. Timothy McVeigh used two tons of ammonium nitrate in the 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City in the United States, killing 168 people and wounding hundreds more. The government said it will detain the 13 suspects for the next two years under a law that allows detention without trial for anyone deemed a security threat. Residents of Singapore - long known as one of Asia's safest countries - were stunned at learning of what the government said was an intricate plan to attack American military ships and planes in the country, buses used by U.S. soldiers, and American companies. The U.S. Embassy, British High Commission, Israeli Embassy and Australian High Commission in Singapore were also "surveyed" by the alleged terrorists, the government said. About 17,000 Americans live in Singapore, a wealthy city-state of 4 million people. Almost 6,000 multinational companies - many of them American - have regional offices in the country. In the past several years, about 100 U.S. Navy ships have visited Singapore each year, said Lt. Leslie Hull-Ryde, a U.S. Navy spokeswoman based in Singapore. The U.S. Navy uses Singapore as a logistics hub for serving ships passing through the western Pacific region, Hull-Ryde said. Singapore recently opened a new naval facility specially built for U.S. aircraft carriers. The U.S. Coast Guard has a detachment in Singapore, and the U.S. Air Force has a squadron based in the country. "There are all kinds of targets that exist in that area," said Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in a briefing Friday. "The government of Singapore has acted with dispatch, and we're very pleased that they have been able to do what they've done," Rumsfeld said regarding the arrests of the suspected terrorists. Evidence found in an al-Qaida leader's house in Afghanistan helped Singapore authorities in the investigation. It was the first time a government has revealed that evidence found in post-Taliban Afghanistan has been used to thwart terrorism. The Singapore government on Friday released a videotape which it said was found in Afghanistan. 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