He's locked up in US while family suffers in S'pore
Singaporean, held for trying to buy weapons for Tamil Tigers, feels 'helpless'. -ST
Sun, Sep 14, 2008
The Straits Times
For the last two years, home for Haniffa Osman, 56, has been a cell in Wicomico County Detention Centre in Baltimore in eastern United States.
Charged with conspiring with three others to export arms to a terror group and abetting money-laundering, he pleaded guilty.
He has been on remand since 2006 and will be sentenced this month. He is looking at up to 15 years in jail.
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