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| Southeast Asia |
| Man Arrested Over Embassy House Blast |
| 2002-10-25 |
| Police have arrested a suspect in last month's botched grenade attack near a Central Jakarta house owned by the US Embassy, officials said Friday. Mohammad Thayib was captured on Thursday in a village on Seram island in Maluku province, said Jakarta Police chief General Makbul Padmanegara. "Y'got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!" "We don't, eh? Show 'im the leg, Yusuf." "This your leg, Mohammad?" Thayib and another suspect escaped after the September 23 pre-dawn explosion in a vehicle outside the house in the upmarket residential area of Menteng. The premature grenade blast killed one man inside the car, while locals chased and caught the injured driver, but Thayib and another passenger managed to get away. "Foot, don't fail me now!" The dead man was identified as Achmad Azis from Bogor, south of Jakarta, where police later found a cache of explosives, weapons and ammunition. The driver, Yusuf, was from Ambon, the capital of Maluku. Jakarta Police spokesman Anton Bahrul Alam said Thayib was also from Ambon, which has been the center of deadly religious violence between Muslims and Christians since January 1999. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |