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Indonesian police kill 2 militants during raid on house in Java
[AlAhram] Indonesian police potted two suspected Islamist snuffies in a house in West Java on Sunday, a police front man said, in the latest in a series of raids aimed at preventing planned attacks in the Moslem-majority nation.Two men had been enjugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in Cibinong, in West Java, and led police to a house nearby, at the Jatiluhur dam, national police front man Awi Setiyono said. "There were two men there and there was a shootout and we had to shoot them," said Setiyono. Police seized some weapons and a letter which said the group had planned to launch an attack at A police bomb squad was still scanning the area for any explosives, Yunus added. Earlier this week, Indonesian anti-terrorism police potted three suspects in a shootout on the outskirts of the capital Jakarta, and said they had foiled a suicide kaboom planned for the end of the year. Police have arrested dozens of suspected snuffies in recent months, including a cell on Batam island that planned a rocket attack on neighbouring Singapore. Indonesia has foiled at least 14 attacks this year alone and made more than 150 arrests. Indonesia will to deploy 85,000 police and 15,000 military personnel for the Christmas and New Year period, police said. Indonesian Police Shoot Dead Two Terror Suspects [AnNahar] Indonesian police Sunday rubbed out two terror suspects and enjugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! two more, only days after foiling separate plans by an IS-linked group for a Christmas-time suicide kaboom near the capital. The pair were fatally shot at a house in Purwakarta 100 kilometers (62 miles) east of the capital Jakarta after allegedly resisting arrest. "We ordered them to surrender and even fired warning shots, but they resisted and started to attack our officers with machetes, so we had to take them down," national police front man Awi Setiyono told AFP. Police raided the house after arresting and interrogating two men on Sunday morning. The suspects attacked officers with knives but gave up after being shot and maimed, police said. After being interrogated, they led police to a house at a separate location where two more members of the group were hiding. Several sharp weapons were seized from the house but no explosives were found. Police said the suspects and the dead men were members of the Jamaah Ansharut Daulah group, a local krazed killer outfit which supports the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group and was responsible for a November attack on a church which killed a toddler on Borneo island. "Their target is to attack coppers, in police posts or even at home. They wanted to attack with sharp weapons such as knives and machetes," Setiyono said. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-12-26 |
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