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Singapore MUST explain! Posted: 25 Nov 2013 08:47 PM PST Wisma Putra has summoned Singapore High Commissioner to clarify news reports that the republic has been 'spying' on Malaysia over the past few decades. Foreign Minister Anifah Aman had already summoned the heads of the US and Australian missions earlier in November in protest over reports that a vast US-led surveillance network included a listening post in America's Malaysian embassy. Malaysia is 'extremely concerned' about the Singapore report, foreign minister Anifah Aman said in a statement. "If those allegations are eventually proven, it is certainly a serious matter that the government of Malaysia strongly rejects and abhors," he said. (In a related development, Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said today Malaysia is ready to share any relevant intelligence with Singapore and there is no need for the island state to spy on the country. "In principle, no other country should be trying to obtains the secrets of another nation," he said. Zahid was responding to foreign news reports that Singapore was helping the United States in its global spying activities. He said Malaysia had already sent a protest note earlier to the US) Singapore's High Commissioner, Ong Keng Yong, confirmed with AFP by phone that he would be visiting the foreign ministry at midday. Monday's report in the Sydney Morning Herald said Singapore and South Korea were playing key roles in a "Five Eyes" intelligence network involving the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. It quoted a top-secret US National Security Agency (NSA) map that it said was published by Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. As a major hub for regional telecommunications traffic, Singapore was an important link in the surveillance network, it said. The United States is struggling to dampen a global controversy over its eavesdropping activities. Based on leaks by fugitive US intelligence analyst Edward Snowden, the revelations have included reports that the NSA monitored German Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone and sparked a trans-Atlantic rift. The Sydney Morning Herald reported earlier this month that a map leaked by Snowden showed 90 US surveillance facilities at diplomatic missions worldwide including in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand, sparking anger in some of those countries. The reports could also spur friction between Singapore and Indonesia. The Indonesians would probably be concerned whether the information is also being shared with Singapore intelligence, besides the Australians. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot has written to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as he seeks to repair relations after claims the phones of Indonesia's leaders were tapped. Yudhoyono halted cooperation with the Abbott government on asylum seekers and military operations after withdrawing his ambassador from Canberra last week, as tensions between the two countries reached their highest point in 14 years.

S'pore spies in Malaysia Posted: 25 Nov 2013 12:30 AM PST Our supposed-to-be-trusted neighbor Singapore has also been spying on us over the past few decades, according to reports.   More top secret documents leaked by American whistleblower Edward Snowden have revealed that Singapore had aided the '5-Eyes', the intelligence group behind a controversial spying activity in Malaysia. Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad was quoted by Austalia's Fairfax news agency as saying that Singapore was a key 'third party' to provide access to Malaysia's communications channel to the five nations accused of tapping telephone lines and monitoring communications networks in Malaysia. The daily published a map showing the US's stranglehold on trans-Pacific communications channels through interception facilities on the US' West coast, Hawaii and Guam. It depicts the facilities, linked between Australia and Japan, tapping all cable traffic across the Pacific Ocean, with Singapore being part of the set up. The Fairfax report said that since the 1970s, Malaysia and Indonesia have been targeted by Australian and Singaporean intelligence, since most of its telecommunications and Internet traffic goes through the island city-state. It was reported last August that's Singaporean intelligence partnered with the Defence Signals Directorate, Australia's electronic espionage agency, to tap the SEA-ME-WE-3 cable that runs from Japan, passing through Singapore, Djibouti, Suez and the Straits of Gibraltar to Northern Germany. This was allegedly facilitated by Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel), the city-state's government-owned telecommunication giant. Despite efforts by both governments, with Malaysia playing it most, to cement two-way ties, the republic which probably trusts only Israel and the United States has been betraying us. I wonder if the Malaysian opposition is involved in leaking some secret documents to Singapore... On SingTel's board to represent the government is none other than Peter Ong, the man who was once in charge of Singapore's national security and intelligence coordination, and who is currently the country's civil service chief. The Fairfax report further claimed that Singtel has expanded intelligence and defence ties between Australia and Singapore in the last 15 years. Last month, Snowden, a former Central Intellligence Agency officer who is at the centre of some 200,000 leaked documents showing America's espionage worldwide revealed that Washington runs a monitoring station in its Kuala Lumpur embassy to tap and monitor phone and network communications. Germany magazine Der Spiegel published a map showing the existence of some 90 electronic surveillance facilities worldwide, including in American embassies in Jakarta, Bangkok, Phnom Penh, and Yangon. I believe Wisma Putra has to go deep into this allegation. If there is a need, we should summon is high commissioner like how we did on the US and Australian embassies in Kuala Lumpur. However, how much trust do we have on Singapore? Personally, I don't think Singapore will be perturbed by our protest... or even if we cut off all ties with them! They don't take us as a friend... they never did!

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