As the Internal Security Department (ISD) officers looked through the copious amounts of papers, photographs and material their colleagues had seized at Jemaah Islamiah (JI) members’ homes, one unexpected discovery was a rock song by American band Aerosmith.
I Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing was the soundtrack to a video disc they uncovered, innocuously titled Visiting Singapore Sightseeing. But the VCD was no travelogue – it was a reconnaissance video of the foreign missions in Napier Road the JI had targeted.
“The JI members obviously had a very perverse sense of humour,” recalls Wei Ling (not her real name), a senior research officer in her 40s.
Another breakthrough was the discovery of a diskette containing bomb-making instructions.
A list of JI members’ code names was also found on what appeared to be a piece of scrap paper.
For the officers involved in piecing together information on the JI after the first wave of arrests in December 2001, every bit of information had to be scrutinised and every lead chased down, to avert the possibly disastrous consequences of bombs going off in Singapore.
In all, 23 people were picked up for interviews in December 2001. Of these, 13 were eventually detained at the Whitley Road Detention Centre.
Their notebooks, photo albums, name cards and even scrap papers sandwiched in books and photographs were combed through.
The arrests and plots were announced in early January 2002.
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