Editing Singapore embassies attack plot (section)

==Surveillance activities==
According to investigations, the cell had conducted survey for other targets as early as 1997, when the cell was planning to target [[Yishun MRT station]], where American troops and their families used to take shuttle rides to the US Navy site at [[Singapore Naval Base#American presence|Sembawang]] for recreation activities at a sports complex coincidentally known as the "Terror Club", named after the Royal Navy shore accommodation establishment [[List of ships named HMS Terror|HMS ''Terror'']].<ref>{{cite web| title = Singapore MWR| publisher = Naval Regional Contracting Centre| url = http://www.clwp.navy.mil/mwr.htm| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070203022235/http://www.clwp.navy.mil/mwr.htm| archive-date = 3 February 2007| df = dmy-all}}</ref> In 1999, a member of the Singapore cell, [[Khalim Jaffar]] travelled to Afghanistan and presented the plan to Al Qaeda's leaders. [[Mohammed Atef]], a close aide of [[Osama bin Laden]], gave JI the go-ahead for the attack.<ref name="FinancialTimes26012002">{{cite news| url = http://www.singapore-window.org/sw02/020126ft.htm | title = 'Sleeper cells' in Singapore show al Qaeda's long reach | publisher = Financial Times, London | author = Raymond Bonner and Seth Mydans | date = 26 January 2002}}</ref>

In April 2001, a member of the cell, who was working at [[ST Aerospace]], took photographs of American military aircraft and personnel at [[Paya Lebar Airbase]], and distributed them to other cell members.<ref name="FinancialTimes26012002"/>

The cell had also surveyed other potential targets including water pipelines at the [[Johor-Singapore Causeway]], [[Singapore Changi Airport]], the Singapore Air Traffic Control Center at Biggin Hill Road, Sembawang Wharves and the [[Ministry of Defence (Singapore)|Ministry of Defence]] at [[Bukit Gombak]].<ref name="whitepaper2003"/>