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| Man arrested with 1000 detonators |
| 2005-10-29 |
| INDONESIAN police said today they arrested a man in possession of 1000 detonators. The 40-year-old man was arrested yesterday in Kupang on the island of East Nusa Tenggara as he attempted to board a ship to the neighbouring town of Maumere, provincial police chief Edward Aritonang said. "The preliminary assumption is that the detonators were going to be sold for illegal fishing purposes but we are not discounting other possibilities," he said. The arrest came a week after police detained four women and a man for smuggling nearly 400 kilograms of ammonium nitrate, 900 detonators and 20 pieces of wire into Indonesia from Malaysia. The five were arrested in the border town of Nunukan in East Kalimantan province, on the Indonesian side of Borneo island. Mr Aritonang said the man arrested at Kupang also possessed an ID card issued in Nunukan but gave no details as to whether he had links with the five people arrested last week. Explosives are commonly used for fishing in Indonesia although the practice is banned. |
| Posted by:God Save The World AKA Oztralian |
| #3 yep - school supplies for lil agents of Islam |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-10-29 16:35 |
| #2 Tape a hundred of them to various parts of his body and set them off. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-10-29 15:32 |
| #1 Man arrested with 1000 detonators ..but..they're only my teaching aids. The arrest came a week after police detained four women and a man for smuggling nearly 400 kilograms of ammonium nitrate, 900 detonators and 20 pieces of wire into Indonesia from Malaysia. ..hey! we're entitled to indigenous supplies, it's our cultural thingy. |
| Posted by: Red Dog 2005-10-29 06:35 |