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Curbs on 12 persons in Singapore

By P. S. Suryanarayana

SINGAPORE, JAN. 14. Singapore today announced that 12 persons were recently issued "restriction orders'' under the Internal Security Act (ISA) as part of the counter-terrorism investigations. Of the 12, 10 have been detected to be members of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), the suspected South-East Asian affiliate of the Al-Qaeda. Two others are classified as members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), a terrorist outfit that targets the Philippines Government.

The action is a sequel to the `detention' of 37 others under the ISA, according to the Ministry of Home Affairs. Of these, two were linked to the Al-Ghuraba terrorist cell in Karachi.

Assessing the scene in the context of these actions, undertaken over a period of time after the terrorist strikes in the U.S. on September 11, 2001, the Ministry said: "The terrorist threat remains as long as JI terrorists, intent on targeting Singapore, are still at large in the region. This is (so), despite the fact that the JI and MILF networks in Singapore have been effectively neutralised. In the longer term, the terrorist threat in the region will remain as long as JI-linked schools continue to train successive cohorts of militants, who are (also) given access to terrorist training camps like those under the MILF in Mindanao and Laskar-e-Tayyiba in Kashmir''.

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