[Al Jazeera] Indonesian police say three suspects who were planning a suicide kaboom on Christmas Day or New Year's Eve were killed when a shootout erupted during a raid on the outskirts of the capital Jakarta.
It was the second imminent attack to be foiled in less than two weeks.
After Wednesday's raid, police said the suspects - supporters of 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and the Levant - had planned to stab officers at a traffic post and then detonate a "large, homemade" bomb as crowds gathered.
"The intention was for a suicide bomb," national police front man Rikwanto, who like many Indonesians uses only one name, told a news conference.
"Every year, Christmas and new year events are the target of gunnies to carry out amaliyah," Rikwanto said, using an Arabic term to describe suicide kabooms in gang circles.
Police said a total of five bombs were found at the house in the South Tangerang suburb.
Television footage showed a bomb squad officer wearing a blast-resistant suit entering the house as locals watched from behind a police line.
Rikwanto said one suspect was captured alive after the firefight.
The raid was the latest in a series over recent weeks that police say have disrupted bomb plots, raising concerns that homegrown attackers in the world's largest Moslem-majority nation are getting bolder in their attempts to engage in violence.
Police said earlier this week at least 14 people were being interrogated over suicide-bomb plots targeting the presidential palace in Jakarta and some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location on Java island.
Both involved ajacket wallah'> exploding trollop female suicide bomber.
A firefight erupted at a house in South Tangerang 25 kilometres (15 miles) outside the capital Jakarta, with police saying the alleged bully boyz had shot up officers.
"We asked the three men to surrender but they fought, with one of them throwing a bomb (at officers). Thankfully the bomb didn't explode and we took firm action against them," said national police front man Rikwanto, who goes by one name.
The plot was disclosed by a member of the group who was placed in durance vile Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! earlier on Wednesday and tipped off police about the three bully boyz and their whereabouts, police said.
The men in South Tangerang have links to the Bekasi group, Rikwanto said. Some are members of a local radical outfit which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group.
Police said investigations are continuing into the larger network and its agenda.
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