Not a Matter of a New Law

Improve the means to ensure security, not ask for additional powers to facilitate fighting terror.

August 19, 2003

THE failure to prevent bombings is already one mistake, but it would be even worse if harsher security laws are called for to combat the problem. It would be more so if the demand was for a law like Singapore's Internal Security Act (ISA), as expressed by Defense Minister Matori Abdul Djalil. Matori and other government officials seem to say that bombings like that at the Marriott, could have been prevented if the security forces were given e

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