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Indonesian coppers arrest 2 men with 3,000 detonators on passenger ferry
Police arrested two men and seized 3,000 detonators and fuses on a passenger ferry in northern Indonesia, a senior officer said Friday.The devices were seized on a ferry in Nunukan in east Kalimantan province after being transferred from a boat that had left a port in nearby Malaysia, Maj. Gen. Sitompul said. The arrests occurred last week, but were only made public on Friday, he said. The two men will be charged under laws regulating explosive materials that carry a possible death penalty, he said. Sitompul declined to speculate on whether the detonators were intended for terrorist use. Illegal miners and fisherman who catch fish by first killing them with primitive bombs regularly buy fuses and detonators on the black market in Indonesia. But authorities have long said that terrorists were smuggling explosive materials through east Kalimantan province, which is also close to the insurgency-wracked southern Philippines. Posted by: Dan Darling 2006-02-17 |
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