- Title: INDONESIA: Raid nets anti-terror police nine suspects
- Date: 3rd July 2008
- Summary: (BN05) JAKARTA, INDONESIA (JULY 3, 2008) (REUTERS) PLANE CARRYING SUSPECTS ARRIVING AT JAKARTA'S MILITARY AIRPORT OFFICIALS PREPARING TWO BUSES PARKING NEAR AIRPLANE POLICE ESCORTING SUSPECT TO BUS BUSES READY FOR TRANSPORTING TERROR SUSPECTS VARIOUS OF SUSPECTS GETTING INTO BUS TERROR SUSPECTS INSIDE BUS A SUSPECT WEARING BALACLAVA SITTING IN THE BUS TWO BUSES LEAVING AIRPORT
- Embargoed: 18th July 2008 13:00
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- Location: Indonesia
- Country: Indonesia
- Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
- Reuters ID: LVA7Z14W4JRULRD6JRSN315SCOEA
- Story Text: Indonesian anti-terror police raid a house and find ready made bombs; nine suspects linked to Southeast Asia's most wanted fugitive, Noordin Mohamad Top, are arrested.
Nine men have been arrested by an Indonesian anti-terror unit.
They were detained in Palembang, South Sumatra and the surrounding areas on Tuesday (July 1) and Wednesday (July 2) after police found assembled bombs during a raid on a house.
A plane carrying the suspects has arrived in Jakarta guarded by heavily armed police.
The detentions came as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was visiting the area in the west of Indonesia on Sumatra island.
Police said another anti-terror team is retrieving more explosives and other electronic devices in Sekayu, about 105 km from Palembang.
A police source said one of the suspects was believed to be a close friend of Azahari Husin, a Malaysian bombmaker for regional militant network Jemaah Islamiah (JI) who is alleged to have played key roles in attacks in Indonesia. Azahari died in a police raid in East Java in 2005.
JI has been blamed for a string of deadly attacks in recent years in Indonesia, including the 2002 nightclub bombings on the island of Bali, which killed more than 200 people, mostly foreign tourists.
There have also been a number of deadly bombings against Western targets in the capital Jakarta, although there has been no major attack in Indonesia for more than two years.
A series of raids, often involving Detachment 88, a police unit funded and trained by the United States and Australia, have led to the arrest of hundreds of militant suspects.
Nonetheless, some of JI's more dangerous members remain at large including Noordin Mohammad Top. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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