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Mas Selamat lookalike arrested

panama

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http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_266144.html

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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->JAKARTA: A bookseller with wavy hair and dark skin was returning to a school where he had made a pitch previously only to be arrested by police. They thought he was Mas Selamat Kastari.

Police questioned Mr Ahmad Fadilah for 10 hours on Thursday before releasing him.

Indonesian police told The Straits Times that the arrest did not suggest they had fresh information that the escaped Singaporean detainee could be in Indonesia.

The arrest was triggered by a tip-off from residents in the Belitung district in southern Sumatra. They had seen posters of Mas Selamat widely distributed there and thought Mr Ahmad looked like him.

Several had seen Mr Ahmad in the neighbourhood earlier this month. Someone told the police, who then visited schools where he had tried to sell textbooks.

The Jakarta-based bookseller had told his customers he was returning to the area on Thursday.

Police nabbed him as soon as he and a colleague named only as Gimin landed at Belitung after their 45-minute plane ride from Jakarta. Gimin was also questioned but it is not known how long he was detained.

Belitung police chief Rudy Ranggono told The Straits Times that they questioned Mr Ahmad and interviewed his neighbours in Jakarta. They also checked his fingerprints but found no match in their database.

'His resemblance to Kastari is especially in his dark skin and wavy hair,' Mr Rudy said in a telephone interview.

'We first got a lead from residents in Manggar area in eastern Belitung that they saw someone they thought to be Kastari. We have distributed pictures of Kastari and Noordin Top all over Belitung.'
Malaysian terror suspect Noordin Top, believed to have masterminded the Bali bombings, is on the run.

Mr Ahmad, whose picture was unavailable, could not be contacted.
Belitung is 600km south-east of Singapore and 330km east of Palembang, where Mas Selamat's acquaintance, Singaporean Fajar Taslim, and nine Indonesian terror suspects were nabbed last month.

The police found 22 ready-to-use home-made bombs and explosive powder during the early July raid at a rented house.

Fajar Taslim's lawyer, Mr Asludin Hatjani, told The Straits Times: 'Fajar Taslim knows Kastari, but they haven't met each other again for so long.'
On Mas Selamat's whereabouts, national police spokesman Abubakar Nataprawira said: 'Up to now, we don't know whether he is still in Singapore, other countries, or has entered Indonesia.'

Wanted fugitive Mas Selamat, who took over as head of Singapore's Jemaah Islamiah chapter in 1999, was accused of planning to hijack a plane and crash it into Singapore's Changi Airport.

He was caught in Indonesia for immigration offences and served his sentence there before being deported to Singapore in 2006. But on Feb 27 this year, he escaped from the Whitley Road Detention Centre, sparking a nationwide manhunt.
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Himerus

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that shows the power of cash/money.
the rewards of $1mil SGD is a lot,when convert to rupiah.
 

eeoror88

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Mat Selamat is now taking a Diploma Course in Casino management. He plans to work in one of the 2 casinos that will be opening soon. Stop disturbing him. He is upgrading his skills !!
 

ReCaRo79

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Frankly speaking it wont be that easy to track him till up to date.

The fact that he can just escaped from singapore is already not a simple person.

He is probably hiding out of singapore by now.

After so long still no news of him and the 1 million reward is like a see but cant get thing for the time being.

My point of view...cheers
 

BlueCat

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i dun think he is in Singapore now,will have escape to nowhere liao.
so long as any resemblance,catch,check and see,try their luck lor.
 
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