Photo: ST / Desmond Wee
Police officers from the Special operations Command were seen at along Goldhill Aveune, off Dunearn Road, as a massive manhunt for JI captive Mas Selamat was launch. The former JI member had escaped from the Whitley Detention Centre on Feb 27th 2008. [A massive manhunt involving thousands of policemen and Gurkhas was launched after Mas Selamat Kastari, the terrorist who planned to crash a hijacked plane into Changi Airport, escaped from detention. Mas Selamat, 47, who took over as head of the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) terror network here in 1999, fled the Internal Security Departmentís Whitley Road Detention Centre at 4.05pm.