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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A top Islamic terror suspect accused in a plot to crash a hijacked plane into Singapore has been arrested in neighboring Malaysia after escaping a high-security Singaporean jail last year, said Walter Chia, a spokesman for Singapore’s embassy in Kuala Lumpur. Mas Selamat Kastari, suspected commander of the Singapore arm of the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah, escaped from the jail on Feb. 27, 2008, by wriggling out a toilet window in a surprising security breach that sparked a massive manhunt.

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