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Indonesian police identify mosque bomber
[Straits Times] INDONESIAN police on Monday identified a jacket wallah who went kaboom!" and maimed 30 people at a Mohammedan on Friday prayer as a man on a police wanted list over previous attacks.Forensic tests showed the bomber was Mohammed Syarif, 32, and police have seized nails and kabooms including potassium nitrate, aluminium and sulphur from his parents' home, detectives told a televised presser. Deputy chief detective Matheus Salempang said Syarif's motives and any links with terror groups are still under investigation, but it had been 'concluded and irrefutably proven' that he was the bomber. 'What we do know is that Syarif had been on the police wanted list in similar cases, including an attack on a minimarket in Cirebon,' he said. Syarif detonated explosives strapped to his body at a mosque within a cop shoppe in Cirebon, West Java province, on Friday as worshippers began their prayers. The kaboom killed him instantly and injured 30 people, six of them seriously. The maimed - who were mostly coppers including the Cirebon police chief - were found with nails, nuts and bolts lodged in their bodies. Posted by: Fred 2011-04-19 |
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