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Southeast Asia
US-funded anti-terror squad in Indonesia under criticism for killing suspected militants
2013-01-06

Indonesia's U.S.-funded police anti-terror squad has killed seven suspected militants in recent days, triggering renewed allegations that the force is not trying to take suspects alive -- a trend that appears to be fueling the very extremism the predominantly Muslim country is trying to counter.
Ahah. Yes. Indeed. If you don't try to take killers alive that only makes more killers. Which leaves you with the problem of how to get rid of killers if you're not going to kill them and they're blazin' away at you. Think of something, quick, because that's live ammunition.
Police spokesman Brig. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar said Sunday that no shots were fired against officers
"Don't stick your head up, Weranto! They'll blow it off!"
during three related raids Friday and Saturday in eastern Indonesia, but that the suspects in at least one of the locations had explosives that were "ready" to be detonated. He said that officers from the anti-terror squad, known as Densus 88, had followed procedures because the suspects were endangering their lives, but gave few details.
Posted by:tipper

#2  Update
Indonesia Police Advance on New Terror Front
Posted by: tipper   2013-01-06 13:15  

#1  the force is not trying to take suspects alive

Of course not, why bother with a trial, They'll lie and Bribe their way out.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2013-01-06 12:04  

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