Mas Selamat capture one of E8’s triumphs

KUALA LUMPUR: He climbed through a ventilation shaft in a toilet at a prison in Singapore, hid under an expressway and swam across the Tebrau straits from Woodlands to Stulang Laut.

It seemed that notorious Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) bomb maker Mas Selamat Kestari, who was also a Singapore’s Internal Security Act (ISA) detainee, hatched the perfect “prison break” in February 2008.