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| Southeast Asia |
| Police defuse bombs |
| 2010-12-02 |
| [Straits Times] INDONESIAN bomb disposal experts defused two bombs on Wednesday just before they were about to explode in police posts on Java island, officials said. Each device was placed in a box containing plastic bottles filled with gasoline, police front man Iskandar Hasan told news hounds. 'When we found them around 8.00am (9am Singapore time) this morning the timers were already on, but our anti-terror squad managed to defuse them,' he said. The bombs were placed in police posts in Klaten district of Central Java province, he added. Police have not identified any suspects but suspicions immediately fell on religious gunnies who are battling to turn the mainly Mohammedan democracy into an Islamic caliphate. Groups linked to or inspired by Al-Qaeda have regularly targeted foreigners in Indonesia but police say they are now on the jihad boys' hit-list along with government leaders and other security forces. |
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