Risking his life to save hostages: Ex-ISD officer recounts 1974 Laju hijacking
SINGAPORE — Early on in negotiations with four armed terrorists who had bombed the Shell oil refinery on Pulau Bukom and hijacked a boat, the Internal Security Department (ISD) made an impossible ask. The authorities needed volunteer officers in a proposed exchange for the crew members of the Laju, the ferry that the terrorists had taken at gunpoint on Jan...
Source: asiaone.com