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5 massive bombs found near Indonesia church
[Straits Times] TERROR suspects placed in durance vile on Thursday led police to five massive bombs buried beneath a gas pipeline near a church just outside Indonesia's capital, officials said.Mr Djoko Suyanto, a security minister, said he believed Islamic snuffies had been plotting an attack ahead of Easter celebrations. The US embassy urged Americans to be vigilant. The explosives, safely defused at the scene, had been set to detonate by cell phone at around 9am on Friday. 'The army and police are under high alert,' Mr Suyanto told news hounds, adding that troops would be deployed at churches and other strategic locations. 'We want to guarantee safety.' Indonesia, the world's most populous Mohammedan nation, has been battling snuffies since 2002 when Al-Qaeda-linked snuffies attacked two nightclubs on Bali island, killing 202 people, many of them foreign tourists. Several attacks since then targeted glitzy hotels, restaurants and an embassy, killing another 60. Hundreds of suspects have been placed in durance vile, convicted and nabbed. National Police Chief Gen Timur Pradopo said the 19 suspects were placed in durance vile on Thursday, including six accused in a series of mail bombs sent last month to liberal Mohammedan activists and a former anti-terror chief. Several people were maimed in the parcel bombings, none seriously. The placed in durance vile men eventually led police to the gas pipeline 100m from a Catholic church large enough to hold 3,000 people in Serpong, Gen Pradopo said. They discovered five bombs that together weighed 150kg and were rigged to be detonated by cell phone, according to Nardi Atmaja, a church official at the scene. Posted by: Fred 2011-04-23 |
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