WALKING AND CHEWING GUM--AT THE SAME TIME!:

Singapore arrests 21 terror suspects linked to al-Qaeda (AP, 09/16/2002 )

Singapore has arrested 21 suspected Islamic militants, most of them members of a group that authorities say planned to attack the U.S. Embassy and has links to al-Qaeda, the government said Monday.

All the suspects were arrested in August and are Singaporean citizens, the Ministry of Home Affairs said in a statement.

The ministry said 19 of the men belonged to Jemaah Islamiyah, a group that Singapore authorities say is connected to Osama bin Laden's terror network and is active throughout Southeast Asia.

Last December, police arrested 13 Jemaah members. With those arrests, authorities said they had broken up a plot to attack the U.S. Embassy and other Western interests here.

Boy, with the focus shifting to Iraq over the last several weeks the effort to get al Qaeda has been almost forgotten, eh? Posted by Orrin Judd at September 16, 2002 9:16 AM