SINGAPORE, 15 January 2004 — The Singapore government announced yesterday it had arrested two men allegedly connected to the Al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist group and placed tight restrictions on 12 others. The arrests bring the total number of suspected terrorists detained by Singapore to 37, the Home Affairs Ministry said in a statement.
Hosnay ibn Awi — father-in-law of an alleged Indonesian bomb maker, Fathur Rohman Al-Ghozi — was arrested in November, the statement said. Al-Ghozi was killed in a shootout with the Philippine military last year.
Alahuddeen ibn Abdullah, an alleged member of the Philippine-based Moro Islamic Liberation Front, or MILF, was arrested in October 2002. The rebel group is known to have hosted Jemaah Islamiyah training camps at its compound on the southern island of Mindanao.
