Mohammed Hassan, a Singaporean Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) member, has admitted during his trial in Jakarta that he had planned to hijack an aircraft in Bangkok and crash it into Singapore’s Changi Airport, according to global risk specialists Stirling Assynt. The scheme was, however, abandoned six years ago when Thai security agencies discovered it. Although by no means an indicator of current tactics, the admission nonetheless illustrates JI’s ambition to emulate the spectacular attacks of al-Qaeda.Critical infrastructure nodes, especially those associated with transportation, remain a favourite terrorist target due to obvious spectacluar and disruptive consequences of an attack. The protection of critical infrastructure is addressed in the new ARC Training Course, Protecting Critical Infrastructure, 17-21 August 2009. For details go to: http://www.arc-tc.com/pages/other_accredited_sm.asp#s5
