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Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist Mas Selamat Kastari escapes from a detention center in Singapore, hiding in Johor, Malaysia until he was recaptured over a year later.
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Jemaah Islamiyah
Southeast Asian salafist organization (1993–2024)
Jemaah Islamiyah was a Southeast Asian Islamist militant group based in Indonesia, which was dedicated to the establishment of an Islamic state in Southeast Asia. On 25 October 2002, immediately following the JI-perpetrated 2002 Bali bombings, JI was added to the UN Security…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Mas Selamat Kastari
Singaporean Islamist fugative
Mas Selamat Kastari is a Muslim Indonesian-born Singaporean who was, for more than a year, Singapore's most-wanted fugitive after escaping from detention on 27 February 2008. The search for him has been described as the largest manhunt ever launched in Singapore. He was…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Johor
State of Malaysia
Johor, also spelled Johore, is a state of Malaysia in the south of the Malay Peninsula. It borders with Pahang, Malacca and Negeri Sembilan to the north. Johor has maritime borders with Singapore to the south and Indonesia to the east and west. As of 2023, the state's population…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
February 27
Day of the year
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