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| 19-year-old detained for planning to join ISIS had planned to kill President and PM Lee |
| 2015-05-31 |
| [STRAITSTIMES] The 19-year-old student detained last month for planning to join terror group Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) intended to kill President Tony Tan Keng Yam and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong if he could not leave Singapore for Syria, Mr Lee disclosed on Friday. His comments, in a speech at the opening of the annual Shangri-La Dialogue security summit, come two days after the Ministry of Home Affairs announced it had detained M Arifil Azim Putra Norja'i, and enjugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! another 17-year-old student who had been radicalised for further investigations. The ministry had said Arifil gave considerable thought to how he would attack key facilities and assassinate government leaders, but did not go into details. On Friday, Mr Lee said of his case: "This is why Singapore takes terrorism, and in particular ISIS, very, very seriously. The threat is no longer over there, it is over here." Mr Lee also announced that Singapore's deployment of a KC-135 tanker refueling aircraft to the Middle East started on Friday. The tanker is part of Singapore's participation in the international coalition against ISIS. In his speech, Mr Lee said terrorism was not an entirely new phenomenon, and various politically-motivated terror groups have largely faded away. |
| Posted by:Fred |