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Folks, this is why we need the PAP to stay in power. So that they can protect us.
Bloomberg
Fortune30 June 2018
Singapore faces its highest terrorism threat level since the time of the September 11 attacks in the U.S. in 2001 and the 2002 Bali bombings, Singapore's defense minister said.
"There are no signs to indicate that this will abate within even the next decade," Ng Eng Hen told reporters on Friday ahead of the country's armed forces day on July 1.
"This is a long-term problem, and we have to deal with it as a long-term problem."
Citing recent terrorism incidents including the May suicide bombings in the Indonesian city of Surabaya and the five-month-long armed conflict with militants linked to Islamic State in Marawi, a city in the southern Philippines, Ng said the metrics pointing to an increased terrorism threat, as well as the number of actual attacks, were all going up.
To deal with a long-term problem such as terrorism meant that the Singapore Armed Forces would need to continue to undergo structural change, Ng said, adding that there was also a greater need for regional and international partnerships to deal with trans-national terrorist threats.
Southeast Asian governments have for years highlighted the risk from returning fighters alongside those radicalized at home via the Internet. In March, Ng said that Singapore would send more troops to Iraq this year to help train the country's security forces.
"You can't deal with it as a single country," Ng said. "You have deal with partnerships, you deal with it at source."
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/news/singapore-terrorism-threat-highest-level-151054983.html
Bloomberg
Fortune30 June 2018
Singapore faces its highest terrorism threat level since the time of the September 11 attacks in the U.S. in 2001 and the 2002 Bali bombings, Singapore's defense minister said.
"There are no signs to indicate that this will abate within even the next decade," Ng Eng Hen told reporters on Friday ahead of the country's armed forces day on July 1.
"This is a long-term problem, and we have to deal with it as a long-term problem."
Citing recent terrorism incidents including the May suicide bombings in the Indonesian city of Surabaya and the five-month-long armed conflict with militants linked to Islamic State in Marawi, a city in the southern Philippines, Ng said the metrics pointing to an increased terrorism threat, as well as the number of actual attacks, were all going up.
To deal with a long-term problem such as terrorism meant that the Singapore Armed Forces would need to continue to undergo structural change, Ng said, adding that there was also a greater need for regional and international partnerships to deal with trans-national terrorist threats.
Southeast Asian governments have for years highlighted the risk from returning fighters alongside those radicalized at home via the Internet. In March, Ng said that Singapore would send more troops to Iraq this year to help train the country's security forces.
"You can't deal with it as a single country," Ng said. "You have deal with partnerships, you deal with it at source."
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/news/singapore-terrorism-threat-highest-level-151054983.html
