Up to 8 Terror Suspects Fled Nation, Official Says
As many as eight Islamic militants with alleged links to the Al Qaeda terrorist network evaded a police sweep and slipped out of Singapore, Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew said in an interview.
Singapore in December detained 15 suspected members of Jemaah Islamiah, a radical group in Southeast Asia. The government said the 15 planned to bomb Western embassies, Navy ships and other targets in the Asian city-state. Two of the suspects were later released.
In addition to the arrests, there were “five or eight others that got away,” Lee said in the interview with CNN’s “Talk Asia.”
Lee, a former prime minister, gave no details of the suspects who fled, such as their nationalities or where they might have gone.
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