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| 8,000 crack troops to guard key Singapore facilities |
| 2004-11-11 |
| Singapore will deploy 8,000 crack troops to guard key national facilities such as power stations and reservoirs as part of increasing anti-terrorism efforts, a press report said on Thursday. The government has established a new training base for police national serviceman designed to cut the amount of time required to enable them to guard key installations (Kins) from four years to two years, the Straits Times said. "This new training ground signifies that a new breed of Kins officers are being trained to handle post 9-11 challenges in the security and protection of Singapore's installations," the paper quoted Senior Minister of State for Law and Home Affairs Ho Peng Kee as saying. The daily said the new training base will enable 8,000 troops to be deployed by 2007 to guard vital national installations, which also include telecommunications facilities. |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |
| #3 What Tom said. Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore had the wisdom and courage to tell the Europeans that they were clueless about the jihadist threat and that Bush was doing the right thing in Afgh and Iraq. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-11-11 3:28:15 PM |
| #2 Singapore will deploy 8,000 crack troops to guard key national facilities such as.. So how many coke troops do they have? How many weed troops? How many heroin troops? |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-11-11 3:17:28 PM |
| #1 Singapore knows how to do it right. I was in Malaysia headed back to Singapore when Desert Storm started. The Singapore airport was secured with very attentive, well-trained, well-armed soldiers. I felt very safe. None of this crap I've experienced in other places where the soldiers look half stoned and actually have their weapons unnecessarily pointed at passengers. |
| Posted by: Tom 2004-11-11 9:05:56 AM |