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| Southeast Asia |
| Suspects trained overseas |
| 2010-03-02 |
| [Straits Times] SEVEN men arrested in a raid by anti-terror police in a remote region of Indonesia's Aceh last week were possibly given military training overseas, police said on Monday. 'None of them are foreigners but there's an indication that they have had training abroad,' national police spokesman Edward Aritonang told reporters, without specifying which countries. 'We're trying to get more details about this,' he said, adding that the suspects had been charged with terrorism-related activities. More than 100 heavily-armed police took part in the raid last week in a forested part of Aceh Besar, where some 50 militants were said to be conducting military-style training including the use of firearms. During the raid, police found rifles, Malaysian military uniforms and propaganda material including videos of the 2002 bombings on the Indonesian resort island of Bali which killed more than 200 people. Provincial police chief Aditya Warman said the suspects were 'strongly suspected' of being part of regional terror group Jemaah Islamiyah, which is blamed for multiple attacks across Indonesia. |
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