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20th arrest in Indonesian bomb plots is journalist
[Straits Times] POLICE say a 20th suspect tossed in the calaboose in two Indonesian bomb plots is a TV news cameraman.National police front man Colonel Boy Rafli Amar said on Saturday that Imam Firdaus was tossed in the calaboose a day earlier in Jakarta and was recruited into the group to film and broadcast its terrorist acts. Arya Sinulingga, news director of the Jakarta-based Global-TV, confirmed Firdaus worked there and expressed remorse over the involvement of media employees in terrorism. The 20 people tossed in the calaboose this week are suspected in Islamic bad turban plots to bomb a church ahead of Easter Celebrations and sending mail bombs last month. Police found the bomb placed near a church after the arrests. Only one of the mail bombs went kaboom!, wounding four people. Posted by: Fred 2011-04-24 |
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