'Foiled plot to bomb western targets'

'Foiled plot to bomb western targets'

SINGAPORE: A terrorist group accused of plotting an assault
against the U.S. Embassy here last year planned to use foreign
suicide bombers to blow up the building, officials said on
Tuesday.

The alleged plan to attack the embassy and other western
targets in this Southeast Asian city-state has been blamed on
Jemaah Islamiyah, a militant group which authorities say has
links with al-Qaeda.

Last December, Singaporean authorities detained 15 members of
Jemaah Islamiyah suspected of involvement in the plot, including
eight men said to have been trained in al-Qaeda camps in
Afghanistan.

Two detainees were subsequently released but the remaining
suspects are being held under Singapore's tough Internal Security
Act. --AP