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| Southeast Asia |
| Bali bombing suspect held |
| 2011-06-15 |
| [Arab News] Indonesian police said Tuesday they have incarcerated a suspected terrorist sought since 2002 for his role in the Bali bombing that killed 202 people. National police front man Brig. Gen. Anton Bachrul Alam said that Heru Kuncoro was captured on June 9 in Pekalongan, a town in central Java. He is among the 16 people incarcerated in recent days on suspicion of plotting cyanide attacks against police. Extremists in Indonesia have increasingly targeted police in the past year or so as an ongoing security crackdown has disrupted terrorists' ability to launch large-scale attacks. One of those incarcerated in the cyanide raids, Budi Untung Wisesa, died during interrogation and police said an autopsy showed he died from a heart attack. Local media quoted relatives saying they had found a wound on Wisesa's head. Police say Kuncoro was a controller who purchased electronic equipment for the 2002 bombing on the tourist island that killed mainly foreigners. He decamped to the Philippines in 2003 with Dulmatin, an alleged criminal mastermind of the Bali bombing who was killed in an Indonesian police raid last year. The pair teamed up with Umar Patek, another Bali bombing suspect, to run a jihadi training camp in the southern Philippines. Patek was incarcerated in Pakistain in January. Two of the incarcerated men, identified only as Faisal and Juarni, were believed to be couriers for Dulmatin and Patek and helped to smuggle weapons from the Philippines to Indonesia, Alam said. He said the two were involved in terrorist attacks against police in Palu last month and an April suicide kaboom in Cirebon in West Java that maimed 30 in a mosque packed with police. |
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