Terror Expert say ISD Good as Gold

[cheekenpie]

Security good as 'gold'

Expert says govt won't underestimate Mas Selamat again. -myp

Mon, May 11, 2009
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"GOLD standard - that is the quality of Singapore's security system, said well-known terrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS).

"However, there is no perfect system in the world. Any system can be breached, as there will be technical gaps and human errors," the professor told my paper.

Prof Gunaratna, who heads RSIS' International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, was speaking in the wake of the recent arrest of Mas Selamat Kastari, the leader of the Singapore branch of Jemaah Islamiah (JI).

The terrorist shocked Singapore by escaping from the Whitley Road Detention Centre last February. He was arrested in Malaysia over a month ago.

A credible tip from Singapore's Internal Security Department on the location of Mas Selamat aided in his arrest.

But, if Singapore's security is so good, how could Mas Selamat have escaped through an open window in the first place?

"He was very determined, so when he saw a small window of opportunity to escape, he exploited it," said Prof Gunaratna, saying the Government had underestimated him in the past.

Since then, the Government has been constantly identifying and plugging "gaps" in its security system, he said.

 

[captainxerox]

sometimes prospectors find fool's gold.

 

[cheekenpie]

Even the Indon and Malaysian authorities are still tracking down terrorists.

Harder than trying to find gold

Home > Breaking News > SE Asia > Story
May 11, 2009
MAS SELAMAT CAPTURED
'Hidden militants' at large
By Shefali Rekhi

Noordin Mohammed Top

DESPITE successive arrests like that of Mas Selamat Kastari revealed last week, a handful of militant masterminds and scores of hardliners remain on the run in South-east Asia.

Terrorism analysts still worry about the havoc that these fugitives can create while in hiding. They also fear that those who have served time behind bars will start re-grouping or recruiting new followers to take up the same cause.

One of them, Abu Bakar Bashir, the spiritual leader of regional terror group Jemaah Islamiah (JI), was released in June 2006 and to this day has continued to encourage attacks against 'infidels' in his talks. He was highly visible during the funeral proceedings of the executed Bali bombers last year, encouraging youth to aspire for 'martyrdom deaths'.

In Malaysia, Al-Qaeda-linked detainee Yazid Sufaat was released last year, after he underwent a rehabilitation programme, along with more than a dozen other JI detainees. Army captain Yazid was accused of abetting the Sept 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. He continues to be under security watch.

The region's most wanted terrorist remains militant Noordin Mohammed Top, who assisted in the Bali attacks, has split from the JI to form a new group and claims to be Al-Qaeda's regional representative. At one time it was suspected that he could have slipped away to the Middle-East but Indonesian terror analysts say he is most likely in the country, working with a small group.

Jakarta-based International Crisis Group representative Sidney Jones notes that among other fugitives, there is JI leader Reno, who escaped when the network's military chief Azahari Hussin was shot in Malang, Indonesia in 2005.

There would be another five or six other radicals from a religious conflict in Poso who got away in 2007, she said.

According to Singapore-based terrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna, JI-linked militant Zulkarnaen, who formed a suicide squad, still figures high on counter-terrorism radar screens.

But the 'concentration of militant activity' in South-east Asia has shifted to 'southern Philippines where the leaders of Abu Sayyaf and JI are working together', he said.

Continuing crackdowns, hundreds of arrests, and the strengthening of laws have improved the situation in Malaysia and Indonesia, even if some gaps remain, say analysts.

 

[Nice-Gook]

Security good as 'gold'


"GOLD standard - that is the quality of Singapore's security system, said well-known terrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS).

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<style></style>I am simply amazed.How could a Sli Lankan who speaks with such a heavy accent became a terror expert in this part of the world.If he is any good he should have been hunting down Tamil Tigers in his native land.The PAP just wanted to show a non Chinese face to the world as a terror expert.If you hear him speak you would puke.Just another PAP lap dog.Since when did he became a professor?

 

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<style></style>I am simply amazed.How could a Sli Lankan who speaks with such a heavy accent became a terror expert in this part of the world.If he is any good he should have been hunting down Tamil Tigers in his native land.The PAP just wanted to show a non Chinese face to the world as a terror expert.If you hear him speak you would puke.Just another PAP lap dog.Since when did he became a professor?

Aiyah, u dun know meh. The PAP could not find a legitimate angmo terrorist expert from the US, UK, Germany, etc. to come and say that the ISD is not incompetent. So, no choice, they got to pay a thambi to say it. This fucker prof with a name like that is probably a tamil himself, and not a singahlese. He probably had to leave the country to avoid arrrest by the Sri lankan authorities for being a terrorist himself. Maybe that is why he is a terrorist expert. LOL

 

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<style></style>I am simply amazed.How could a Sli Lankan who speaks with such a heavy accent became a terror expert in this part of the world.If he is any good he should have been hunting down Tamil Tigers in his native land.The PAP just wanted to show a non Chinese face to the world as a terror expert.If you hear him speak you would puke.Just another PAP lap dog.Since when did he became a professor?

Really! How to qualify as "Terror Expert"
Is there a Phd in Terror?
Is He a Ex-Terror is Osama's Cell?
DId he plan any operations that lead to the capture or killing of any Terror?
Is he a Ex CIA, Seal, Delta force?

Or did he real every novel on the bookshelf on Terror and become a Terror expert?

Once you are hand picked as a PAP Dog, they will "Legitimize" your credentials.

 

[Ah Guan]

Security good as 'gold'

Same 'gold' as Old Man's "Golden" Period

 

[numero uno]

<style></style>I am simply amazed.How could a Sli Lankan who speaks with such a heavy accent became a terror expert in this part of the world.If he is any good he should have been hunting down Tamil Tigers in his native land.The PAP just wanted to show a non Chinese face to the world as a terror expert.If you hear him speak you would puke.Just another PAP lap dog.Since when did he became a professor?

yeap. he is a useless crap. talk c@ck only. remember last year when the shitty times interviewed him. all the so-called "security experts" especially him this guy talk like sh!t spewing from their mouth saying he is in Riau islands or Indonesia definitely(all printed in ST last year). Check it out. he was caught dead wrong many times. NOT A SINGLE OF THESE SO CALLED EXPERTS CORRECTLY PREDICTED HE WAS IN JB!!!. Now he is captured by the JB police and everyone now claims credit for it and he and the rest talk like c@ck to media as if they were correct initially. They should just shutup. useless sh!tty analysis and sycophant. what "professor". analysis always wrong. paid to talk the obvous. dig up the old papers and read it . alot of his predictions and analysis crap.:oIo::oIo::oIo::oIo::oIo: