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Indonesian police arrest foreign terror suspect
JAKARTA - Indonesian police chief General Sutanto on Friday said that special anti-terror police arrested a foreign terrorist suspect in East Nusa Tenggara province, local media reported. He is wanted by Interpol, General Sutanto was quoted by the local news service Detik.Com as saying. This terror suspect committed his crime outside the country, not in Indonesia, and we helped Interpol to catch him. General Sutanto refuse to give further details on the nationality of the terror suspect arrested by Indonesias anti-terror unit, known as Detachment 88.An East Nusa Tenggara provincial police spokesman told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa the anti-terror squad detained a Singaporean man named Abdul Rasyid, alias Hamdan, on Monday in a village in West Nusa Tenggara. Police nabbed him from Tongo village and he is a Singaporean, Major police Marten raja told dpa. Indonesia has been the site of some of the worst terrorist attacks targetting Westerners in the region in recent years, including the 2002 Bali night club attacks, the August 2003 blast outside the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, the September 2004 explosion outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta and last Octobers triple suicide blasts in Bali. Southeast Asias Islamic militant network Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), a regional terrorist group linked with Al Qaeda, has been blamed for most of the attacks and some of its members are believed to be still active and planning more. Posted by: Steve 2006-04-21 |
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