The real reason is probably this: Guantanamo Bay is being closed down now. All prisoners are being sent back to their country of origin, and both Malaysia & Sg are together in this whole charade, bullcrapping about “capturing” Mas Selamat and the others. All have probably been returned, and it’s now up to the 2 countries to keep the detainees’ mouths shut about Guantanamo Bay.

Simple as that. The dude was never on the run. He was given over to Guantanamo Bay.

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DPM Wong Kan Seng speech in [color=red] ISD Service Promotion Ceremony on April 15 clearly shows WKS is unaware of MS capture.[/color] The Johorians silence on the capture is understandable.
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Mas Selamat’s re—arrest not the end of Singapore’s problem
Channel NewsAsia – Sunday, May 10

SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said Singapore’s security challenge is to keep up its guard without getting fatigued or complacent.

In his first remarks on the capture of Mas Selamat Kastari, Mr Lee said Singapore must not think that the re—arrest of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) leader is the end of its problem.

He said the terrorism situation in Southeast Asia is under control, but the threat is far from over. He added that the price of security is eternal vigilance.

In a statement to the media on Saturday, the Prime Minister also said information
about the [color=red] capture of Mas Selamat on 1 April was not made public earlier, because of a prior agreement with the Malaysian authorities.[/color]

Mr Lee said he was told about the arrest by his Malaysian counterpart Najib Razak [color=red] on 11 April during an impromptu four—eye lunch in Thailand’s Pattaya after the ASEAN meeting was called off due to demonstrations.

He thanked Datuk Seri Najib for Malaysia’s generous support and help and told him Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Wong Kan Seng had earlier told him of the arrest.[/color]

Mr Lee said he was happy and relieved that Mas Selamat had been found and arrested before he could do any harm.

But Malaysia had asked Singapore to keep this information quiet for the time being, so Singapore respected this and held the information very tightly in order not to jeopardise the operation.

But on May 7 afternoon during a weekly pre—Cabinet meeting lunch, Mr Wong received a phone call informing him that the Internal Security Department (ISD) had received a request from the The Straits Times to confirm a scoop that Mas Selamat had been arrested by the Malaysian authorities.

As the news had leaked, the Singapore government had no choice but to confirm the story.

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My theory is that MY did get tips from SG on where MSK migh be. Who would believe that MY police so free help SG capture a wanted criminal. They have their own problems to worry about and MSK was targetting SG, not MY so he wont be that high a priorit compared to MY’s own most wanted list.

So SG give them tips and since we cannot operate in MY, we had to let MY run the show. When the tips turn out to be accurate MSK was caught MY dont want to release him but want to hold him indefinitely to expose the local MY network.

But WKS wait one month tulan cannot take it anymore organise this leak. Now MY lan lan have to confirm they caught MSK now must give publicly a date to return him to SG.

Ha! What a joke!

My theory is this.

SG badly needed to release the good news. But MY bargaining for some piece if not all of the $1m, or something else.

(It seems that SG was not informed of the arrest on 1 Apr but only informed some days later, and so it was an entirely local MY operation.)

SG of course not willing to be held hostage, so SG gets someone to leak the capture that eventually gets to this ST freelancer in KL, one Leslie Lopez. And as the leak happened in KL, not SG, so no one gets slam with ISA. Its KL problem.

And if ST dont publish it, almost certainly some others like Reuters, AP, AWSJ, etc, would, and so MY have to relent and agree to reveal the capture. So now SG can rejoice and make congratulatory noises.

But MY still has the person, which may or may not matter to SG.

Its always have been a dirty game, and everyone plays it.

My family and I speculate that he was accidentally killed, and they’ve found a scapegoat for him, in other words, they haven’t really captured him. Then again, this is a far-fetched thought. ;D

I do agree with you; I feel that the most likely reason for the delay was to be able to get as much out of him as possible without being pressurised by the public. Makes sense to me.

All in all, though, his capture doesn’t bother me. Even if he were to bomb Singapore, I wouldn’t mind.
The Sun’s gonna explode in a few (billion) years anyway.

Cheers,
Jayashri

this MAS will join the elites? since he smarter than the elites here.

by the way, is it because the info/news about MAS caught (came here by

improvised flotation device), so that’s why reach us so late?

is internet not used by elites, dont know?

or is it still using 飞鸽传书?

sad story.

aiyoyo

Is it just me or can somebody explain to why I feel like that?

Our checkpoints,our RSN and Marine Police were all unable to prevent him from getting out of SIN! How proud we shd be!

I wonder if he is still limping?

One year ago…….
Propective Informer: Wong, did you know that Mas Selamat is in Johor?
WKS: Zhun boh? I thought my people said that he’s still in Singapore?
Prospective Informer: Huh?? You don’t know meh? Everybody knows, and you don’t know meh? Check this.. you see this everywhere in Johor… “Selamat Datang Johor!!” (Selamat VisitsJohor!!)

Six months ago….
Reporter: Do you believe Mas Selamat is still here?
LHL: We have no reason to believe that he has left.

End of 2008
Reporter: Where do you think Mas Selamat is?
WKS: He is either in Singapore or out of Singapore

One day in April 2009
LHL: No more shit about Mas Selamat and the Johor jungle! Make sure he doesn’t escape!!
WKS: Don’t worry boss, there’s no toilet in the Johor Jungle

Question: How come, the Malaysian police can capture Mas Selamat in the jungle?
Answer: Mas Selamat is toilet-trained but not jungle-trained.