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| Indonesia: Plot foiled to kill officials, Shiite followers |
| 2015-12-24 |
[KSL] Indonesian police said Monday they have foiled a plot to kill government officials, law enforcement officers and others by suspected Muslim snuffies incarceratedYouse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! over the weekend. Security was raised at airports, the presidential palace, foreign embassies and shopping malls, and the government said it will deploy more than 150,000 personnel to safeguard public places and churches across the country. Information from the U.S., Australia and Singapore helped Indonesian police discover that the attacks were planned for the year-end holiday season, national police chief Gen. Badrodin Haiti said. "This is the result of sharing intelligence to combat international evil," Haiti said. "There is a possibility of other groups, and we will continue to pursue them." Anti-terror police arrested nine men over the weekend in five cities on Indonesia's main island of Java. Those arrested included Zaenal, who is thought to have planned to be a jacket wallah in one of the attacks, and Asep Urip, a teacher at an Islamic boarding school who allegedly received funds from Indonesian snuffies who are joining 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 in Syria, national police front man Maj. Gen. Anton Charlian said at a separate news conference. Their interrogation led police to arrest several other suspects who had been sought since a raid on their bomb-making factory in Klaten town last year, he said. They have expertise in shooting and bomb-making because of their membership in Jemaah Islamiyah, an al-Qaeda-linked Southeast Asian group blamed for the deadly 2002 nightclub bombings on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, Charlian said. "This group has collaborated with those who returned from war in Syria," he said. "They want to perform a 'concert' to attract international news coverage of their existence here." He cited a document seized from the group that described the planned attacks as a "concert." Charlian said police have identified about 240 people who have returned home out of at least 800 Indonesians who have traveled to the Middle East to join IS. |
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