Mas Selamat Kastari, the former leader of Jemaah Islamiyah in Singapore, escaped from prison. Kastari plotted to bomb the Singapore Changi Airport and conduct attacks in the city-state using seven bomb-filled trucks. He was arrested by Indonesia’s anti-terror squad on the island of Java in Indonesia in January 2006.
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