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The MacDonald House is a prominent building and monument in Singapore, located at Orchard Road in the Museum Planning Area, within the Central Area of the country. Built in 1949, it was the first building to be fully air-conditioned in Southeast Asia .
The MacDonald House bombing was a sabotage attack on the MacDonald House building in Orchard Road, Singapore, on 10 March 1965, just a few months before Singapore's expulsion from Malaysia. The nitroglycerin bomb was planted by Indonesian saboteurs Harun Thohir and Usman Haji Muhammad Ali during a period of heightened Indonesia–Malaysia ...
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English: MacDonald House along Orchard Road, Singapore, photographed from Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station across the road. Date 25 February 2014 (according to Exif data).
The team was tasked to carry out sabotage operations against Malaya, now Malaysia, of which Singapore was a part, during the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation of 1963–1965. Harun was later stationed at Sambu Island, Batam, Riau province, Indonesia, from where the team infiltrated Singapore on 7 March 1965 with 12 kilograms of explosives.
Usman Haji Muhammad Ali was born in Jatisaba, Purbalingga, on 18 March 1943. [2] [3] He graduated from middle school in 1962.[2]On 1 June 1962, he entered the Indonesian Marine Corps, [2] and was appointed as one of three volunteers to serve in the military operation Komando Siaga (later renamed Komando Mandala Siaga), led by Air Force Vice Admiral Omar Dhani, during the Indonesia–Malaysia ...
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