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| Indonesia arrests 16 over 'cyanide plot' |
| 2011-06-14 |
| [Straits Times] INDONESIA has locked away 16 terror suspects who planned to carry out a mass cyanide poisoning against the police, the national police front man said on Monday. 'We rounded them up in a four-day operation last week. They planned to poison police personnel using cyanide,' Boy Rafli Amar told news hounds. 'Besides poisoning food at cop shoppe canteens, they also planned to inject the poison into mineral water bottles,' he said, adding that the suspects revealed the plot during police interrogation. 'This is a new model of terror attack.' In recent months police have locked away dozens of suspects, allegedly part of a new bully boy cell behind a series of recent incidents, including book bombs that were sent to Mohammedan moderates and counter-terrorism officials. The cell was linked to an April suicide kaboom in a prayer room at a police compound in Cirebon in West Java. Police also foiled a bid to set off a massive bomb near a Christian church on the outskirts of Jakarta at Easter. No one was killed in those incidents. |
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