[Arab News] Indonesian police have killed six suspected gunnies in a weekend onslaught against a group wanted for a series of armed robberies that authorities say were intended to finance terrorist acts, officials said Sunday.
| Once again demonstrating that today's jihadis are merely standard-issue criminals in fancy clothing. |
The clashes happened in North Sumatra's Serdang Bedagai district. On Saturday, police killed four suspected members of the group and jugged two others. Then on Sunday, one suspect was fatally shot and another killed by a grenade he apparently threw during a gunbattle with police, said Maj. Gen. Oegroseno, chief of North Sumatra police. Another suspect surrendered at a local cop shoppe, said Oegroseno, who, like many Indonesians, uses only one name. Police are still searching for at least five other suspects. The group is believed behind robberies of banks and moneychangers that have netted more than $127,000 since April to buy weapons and finance acts of terror. The group is also accused of attacks on cop shoppes that have killed three officers. |