MAS Selamat Kastari, one of the region’s most wanted terrorists, was nabbed while he was asleep in a secluded kampung house in Skudai, Johor, The Star reported on Saturday.

He could barely put up a struggle in his shorts and T-shirt when he was caught during a dawn raid on April 1.

Straits Times

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21 Responses to “No time to dress up, Mas Selamat caught while sleeping!”

  1. this is the way lah 9 May 2009

    This is the standard method for catching terrorists and big criminals lah. Nabbed while they are asleep!.

    I remember they also caught the “one eye dragon” this way, but in a hotel room. He also offered no resistance and instead even asked the police to “finish him off” on the spot!

    Don’t know whether Mas also asked for that. But anyway he is too valuable to be “finish off” on the spot.

  2. Shorts & T-Shirt 9 May 2009

    Hmmm. Very strange that he was caught in shorts and T-Shirt, the attire supposedly associated withy the detention center. I suppose, Mas Selimut is not so smart after all as shorts & T-shirt is a dead giveaway attire for the rural environment. Or is the story still unfolding until such that the Masculine Mentor appear?

  3. tida-apar 9 May 2009

    Caught while sleeping ? Sounds familiar. He also managed to escape while WKS and his useless team are “sleeping” on their job. That’s how he even managed to swim across the straits in bright day light.

    I think our coast guards are even sleeping more in their job !

  4. r4rfr 9 May 2009

    the ability for him to get out of prison and can some more get to malaysia show how serious the hm should be responsible.

    now he is caught and if he still get away another time from singapore.

    i think even the prime minister should be held responsible.

  5. Sick of Spinners. 9 May 2009

    That is not a very smart way of spinning.

    Who has actually been caught sleeping?

    Those who were complacent enough to allow Mas Selamat to escape and swam across the straits during broad day light, or Mas Selamat?

  6. WHITE ELEPHANT 9 May 2009

    our government gonna give itself a payrise again for catching mas selamt?

  7. prophecy 10 May 2009

    6) WHITE ELEPHANT – “our government gonna give itself a payrise again for catching mas selamt?”

    What a prophecy ! Yep, in today’s papers, LHL just can’t stop singing praises for WKS and ISD for helping to nap this mas selamat. I almost puke out my last nite dinner when I read it. How can you praise someone for being so slack and putting the entire country at a big terror risk ?! They should be lucky they’re not being fired. It’s really sickening as the garhmen just keep treating sporeans as either morons or with an IQ equivalent to a 5 yr old child.

    And how can anyone not see that they’re really desperate to repair their damaged reputation in dire hope that they can justify more raise to their million dollars salaries !

  8. Andrew 10 May 2009

    sleeping, isn’t that WKS forte???

  9. methink 10 May 2009

    Despite the good work done by WKS and his team and explanation by PM…it is amzing there are so many negative responses..Give credit where crdit is due man!!

  10. TOM was quick to say any schoolboy can swim across in 15 mins.. this is misleading public to think it is so easy…. not as easy as TOM said..

    Foatation device.. your coastal force were trained to track moving floatation ….esp fact MS had escaped & police were looking for him.

    TOM were quick to throw off any talk of lackasacidal attitue on part of police force.. but we all know the lookout for him were intensive and he still manage to slip through..

    Apologise for allowing him to swim passed & through..it happen under your watch.
    Your coastal patrol were “sleeping”?

  11. MS captured, Stock market up. List of names slowly announced. HC resigned. GE coming soon?

  12. Mas Selam at Night 10 May 2009

    To go by his name, he Must Selam (dive) at Night : Mas Selam At _______

  13. X.X!!! 10 May 2009

    lets just face it.

    Disgusting, $$face, powerhungry, and “dont give a rats a$$” .

    so guys.. WE’ve MADE A MISTAKE THE LAST GE BY VOTING FOR PAP!

    SO DONT REPEAT IT! lets all SUPPORT OPPOSITION!

    its time to put an end to this dictatorship and bullcrap

  14. hear! hear! 10 May 2009

    So are they transferring MSK back to the all-new whitley road dentetion centre..i got better idea..lock him up in WKS house basement…cannot trust ghurkha to guard properly..get WKS maid to be the sentry lah…HAHAHAHAHAHA

  15. TrueBlood Singapore 11 May 2009

    This story tell us Nothing is Impossible if you got great determination thru God or Divine Power!

    Even a cripple man can escape from the PAP system why ordinary Singaporean can’t !

  16. farnie 11 May 2009

    so…..in what way did our ISD help to capture this guy? by telling the Malaysian police that he is no longer hiding in SG?

  17. gemami 11 May 2009

    Let’s talk about ISD’s performance from the time a lame and limping detainee walked out of the detention centre with a roll of toilet paper unnoticed. For 398 days he limped all over the island, swum with one limping leg, the equivalent of 20 Olympic-size swimming pool lengths, on a makeshift floating device, manouvering himself along the river channel, evading patrol boats and coastal guards, run along the coast line of both Singapore and JB to finally end up where he was caught – sleeping in his T-shirt and shorts.

    We were damn lucky that MSK was only planning to get out of Singapore. Imagine if he had planned to bomb some parts of Singapore instead. We won’t stand a chance against him with this kind of Internal Intelligence we have, the intelligence of someone named, Wong Kan Seng.

    Who are the ones with the limp if not the ISD and WKS.

  18. Steven 11 May 2009

    Dear PM Lee,

    Please kindly remember that when you lose $10 and then 1 year later, you find back the $10, please do note that you have gained NOTHING. It is a good job for the security forces on both sides of the causeway but there is no need to keep beating up the news. We are no better off with his capture then before he escaped.

  19. getsmart 11 May 2009

    To gemami,

    From what you commented, you could be on to something with regards to Mas Selamat’s human feat. Come to think of it, Mas will beat all those contestants in Survival even with a limp or Mas can be a potential gold medalist in the Special Olympics. Hope TV Survival series and Olympic Council take note.

    In his own way Mas Selamat has shown us that those limp in the brain are worse off than those limp in the leg.

  20. GONG-kIA 13 May 2009

    The uncle at a Chinatown shopping complex who maintains the toilets there
    believes that if there were 7 rolls of toilet paper on the floor outside the toilet
    windows of the dentention centre, these toilet rolls had to be placed there by
    someone on the outside of the toilet. There had to be an accomplice to
    provide these toilet rolls
    His argument is that the escape was made from a latrine and not a wc and
    logistically it is unlikely to provide toilet rolls in latrines especially for 7 rolls to be there it certainly is incomprehensible.
    Whoever is in charge of toilet items will have accountability problems when audit of toilet rolls are required

    When the uncle being a toilet expert, was asked to bring this observation to the attention of MHA, he laughed uncontrollably as he could not see how a lowly paid “toilet manager” could have the audacity to offer advice to the top notch professionals which included a commision of enquiry and security experts who had gone through every detail with a fine toothed comb and did not see any
    irregularity as to how the toilets rolls happened to be there outside a latrine.

    The toilet manager did suggest though that when MSK is given the welcome home treatment the first thing that he should be encouraged to speak a bit about is the mystical appearance of the toilet rolls at the latrine and also the improvised ducky duck that was conveniently lying about at the beach.

  21. Not a Bad Sign? 22 June 2009

    Can it be that the orderliness in Singapore has made it hard for the enforcement guys to think from the wrong side of the law or like a terrorist?