1. 'JI men planned to attack Singapore‘
New Straits Times
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
THE most insidious terror attack planned by the Jemaah Islamiyah was to sabotage
selected targets in Singapore including the water supply, Changi International Airport
and the Mass Rapid Transit system.
"The reason for these targets was to cause tension between both countries," said an
officer familiar with militant operations.
JI had also planned to launch attacks against the United States embassy and visiting
US warships in Singapore.“
The planned attacks were headed by Huda @ Mukhlas Abd Haq, an Indonesian
national who is a Malaysian permanent resident. He was also responsible for
supervising JI members in Johor.
Huda was a senior JI member with direct links to al-Qaeda supremo Osama bin
Laden. He was convicted and executed by Indonesian authorities in 2008 for his role
in the 2002 Bali bombings.
Initial planning began in December 2000 but it was curtailed after police launched a
crackdown on JI activities in Johor, which saw several members detained, including
Dr Abdullah Daud, a Universiti Teknologi Malaysia lecturer.
A day after the Sept 11, 2001 bombings, Mohammed Mansour Jabarah, a Canadian,
flew into Kuala Lumpur from Hong Kong where he met several Malaysian al-Qaeda
members at a fast food outlet. H
He regularly visited Internet cafes to communicate with his contacts, setting up
several email accounts to stay in touch with al-Qaeda headquarters in Pakistan and
Afghanistan. A
At the time of his arrival in Malaysia, Mansour had been listed as an al-Qaeda
operative by Canadian authorities. In late October 2001, he crossed the border into
Singapore by bus.
JI members across the Causeway met Mansour and began discussing targets for
potential attacks in the city state, including Western embassies and a US warship in
Sembawang harbour.
"There were plans to use four tonnes of explosives and Mansour was tasked with
providing the cash.
"However, the plans failed after Malaysian and Singaporean authorities launched a
crackdown," the officer said.

2. Thirteen JI members were detained under the Internal Security Act on both sides of
the Causeway.
Besides the planned attacks on selected targets in Singapore, the detainees also
confessed to plans to blow up the Woodlands Checkpoint using a truck bomb
manned by three Johor JI cell members.
Police also seized large amounts of ammonia nitrate in Johor, the main component
of ammonium nitrate/fuel oil, a widely used bulk industrial explosive mixture.
It is understood that the explosives were to be used to bomb selected targets in
Singapore including the United States and Israeli embassies and the warship.
Mansour fled Singapore before he could be picked up.
He became the subject of an international manhunt and was arrested three months
later in Oman.
He was handed over to the US in May 2002 and given a life sentence in January
2008.
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