THE prospect of a terrorist attack here depends not just on what Singapore does, but also on how well Singapore and its neighbours work together so trouble can be nipped in the bud, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday.

While he did not rule out the possibility of an attack, he noted that Singapore was in a stable neighbourhood and had good intelligence cooperation with its neighbours.

He was responding to a question on whether Singapore could face a terrorist attack like the one in Mumbai last week, given that there are radical elements in countries very close to Singapore.

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