| Submit your comments on this article |
| Southeast Asia |
| Indonesian authorities detain 17 nationals returning from Syria |
| 2017-01-23 |
| [AlAhram] Indonesian authorities have detained 17 nationals returning from Syria, including children, suspected of being involved in radical activity, officials told Rooters on Sunday. Immigration office front man Agung Sampurno said the people, including a two year-old girl and a three year-old boy, were nabbed Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! at Soekarno-Hatta airport upon disembarking an Istanbul-Jakarta Turkish Airline flight on Saturday. They have been handed over to the police's anti-terrorism unit for questioning, Sampurno said. "They are currently still under an interrogation process. If we find any relation to crime on terrorism, we will continue the investigation. If not, they will be handed over to their families," the chief of Densus 88, police's anti-terrorism unit, Eddy Hartono told Rooters. Police have been monitoring dozens of returning citizens over concerns they could be linking up with networks to equip a new generation of Police killed 33 people and arrested 170 in 2016 for foiled attempts to launch attacks, a significant increase compared to 2015, according to their statistics. A gun and bomb assault in the heart of Jakarta in January 2016 killed four people and was the first attack in Southeast Asia claimed by 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.... . |
| Posted by:trailing wife |