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Amid all the media hype - try and remember that this man has so far been convicted of NOTHING!

IT TOOK 398 days for Mas Selamat to be caught on 1st April, but another 36 days for the public to be informed. What happened in between?

The Straits Times editors must be rubbing their hands in glee right now: they got the scoop of the year. Mas Selamat, the fugitive on the run, was found to be under interrogation by the Malaysian authorities. This was certainly no April Fool’s joke.

But while the ISD can finally pat themselves on the back for a job well done, it seems rather odd that they would want to hide their prize from public view, instead of displaying it proudly on the top shelf.
This could only mean two possibilities. TOC

From the BBC. Video

A top terrorism suspect has been arrested in Malaysia more than a year after his escape from a prison in Singapore, authorities say.

Officials said Mas Selamat Kastari had been detained in a joint operation between Malaysia and Singapore in Malaysia's southern Johor state.

He is the suspected Singapore leader of Jemaah Islamiah, blamed for attacks including the 2002 Bali bombings.

His escape through a toilet window triggered a worldwide manhunt.

Mas Selamat Kastari is also alleged to have plotted to crash a hijacked plane into Singapore's international airport.

Walter Chia, a spokesman for the Singapore's embassy in Kuala Lumpur, said authorities were interrogating the suspect.

Singapore's Straits Times said he had been detained on 1 April.

Indonesian authorities arrested Mas Selamat Kastari on immigration violation charges in 2003.

He was handed over to Singapore in 2006, where he was detained under the city-state's Internal Security Act - a law which permits indefinite imprisonment without trial.

But he escaped in February 2008, managing to squeeze through the toilet window at his detention centre and climb over a fence while guards waited outside the bathroom.

Jemaah Islamiah, which has links to al-Qaeda, is blamed for the bombings on the Indonesian island of Bali in 2002 which left 200 people dead.