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...Jemaah Islamiah's reach extends far beyond just Malaysia. In December, Singaporean police arrested 13 alleged members of the Jemaah Islamiah and uncovered detailed plans to bomb U.S. targets in the city-state. In addition to the scheme involving the missing tons of ammonium nitrate that were destined for Singapore, police there have unearthed another Jemaah Islamiah plot to order a further nine tons of the chemical. (For comparison, the devastating Oklahoma City bombing required only one ton of ammonium nitrate...
...TIME: Singaporean officials also point to your involvement in the planned bombing of American and Israeli targets there...
...tape's narrator, according to authorities, is Hashim bin Abas, a 40-year-old Singaporean electrical repairman now under arrest. The video, along with notes and maps, was discovered by U.S. forces in the rubble of an al-Qaeda leader's house in Afghanistan in mid-December. Singapore police are now holding 13 men they say were part of a regional terrorist group trained and coordinated by al-Qaeda. The police claim the group was plotting to attack U.S. targets in Singapore, and two al-Qaeda operatives flew into Singapore in October to give advice on how to make...
...details released by local police are sketchy: they won't say when the bombings were to take place. But they do expose an alleged terrorist network that has been in existence in Singapore for at least five years. All 13 of the arrested men are Singaporean citizens. Eight of them, according to police, received military training at al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan. One allegedly left Singapore for training as far back...
...come right out and say it, but Chee Soon Juan must have known all along he would lose. And by Sunday morning it was official: the leader of Singapore's leading opposition party had been beaten. In fact, opposition politicians had won just 2 seats in the 84-seat Singaporean Parliament. Why then did Chee go through what he knew from personal experience would be a harrowing election campaign, one that would bring wounding personal attacks and possibly yet another crippling defamation suit? "Yes, the situation is very unfavorable to us, but you've got to keep chipping away...