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| Bangladeshis arrested in Indonesia for ‘terrorism' |
| 2002-09-29 |
| Two Bangladeshi men with suspected links to international terrorist networks were arrested in Medan, North Sumatra, a police official said on Friday. The two foreigners, identified as Huseiri alias Iqbal, 27, and M. Tana Chouduri, 30, were nabbed from a hotel in Medan, according to North Sumatra Police spokesman Adj. Sr. Comr. Amrin Karim. "The two suspects entered Medan without proper immigration documents. Currently, the police are still investigating their possible involvement with international terrorist networks," Amrin told The Jakarta Post Friday night. They sound pretty desperate. What happened? But the two suspects, according to Amrin, insisted that they were not part of any terror group. They always say that. What'd they do? Amrin said the police confiscated from the two men, Indonesian identity cards and passports, 11 cellular phone cards, a bank account book with a balance of Rp 52 million (US$5,700) and gold jewelry. Pretty flush. But what'd they do? He said the police had arrested them after receiving complaints from cell phone operator PT Telkomsel, and from two women, Nurhayati and Yustina, who claimed to have been cheated by the two foreigners. That doesn't make them terrorists, though. It just makes them cheats... According to Amrin, the two suspects entered Medan together with Nurhayati from Malaysia last month. Nurhayati herself initially worked in Malaysia. Nurhayati said she agreed to leave Malaysia, after working there for seven months, and came back to Medan as Huseiri alias Iqbal promised to marry her. The cad! Arriving in Medan, the two, with the help of Nuryahati's family, processed Indonesian identity cards so that they could marry quickly. Then, they made family cards, with which they got a local cell phone number under Nuryahati's name. And then they set about bilking the locals. Next step was probably to set up a three-card monte game, and move on from there to selling gold bricks. But they don't sound like terrorists. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 "Hey Useiri! What shall we do this month?" "Tana, I got us a scheme that'll make us rich. Rich I tell ya!" "Hokay, what we do?" "You know those Indonesian babes with those, those, those THINGS on their chests? Man, they love terrorists. How's about we go to Medan and pretend we're Jihadis, big heat -- we'll bring extra guns to show 'em -- and the babes will fall all over us!" "Yeah, that's the ticket. Lemme get my explosive belt in case they want more proof!" |
| Posted by: Steve White 2002-09-30 11:16:08 |