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| Southeast Asia |
| Indonesia arrests 11 men over terror plot |
| 2011-07-09 |
| [Straits Times] INDONESIA has rounded up 11 terror suspects who planned to launch attacks against police and liberal Mohammedan figures, the national police front man said on Friday. 'They planned to attack police and the JIL office,' Antan Bachrul Alam told news hounds, referring to the liberal Mohammedan group which was the target of a parcel bomb in March which injured four people. He said they were placed in long-term storage earlier this week in Jakarta and other locations on Java island as part of a four-day operation. More than a dozen firearms were seized along with more than 270 bullets. The front man said the suspects were suspected of involvement in smuggling weapons into the world's most populous Mohammedan-majority country from the Philippines, through Malaysia. Police placed in long-term storage 16 terror suspects last month for a plot to poison police personnel with cyanide at station canteens. According to Sherlocks they planned to inject the poison into mineral water bottles. In the last few months dozens of suspects have been held who are allegedly part of a new thug cell behind a series of recent incidents, including book bombs sent to Mohammedan moderates and counter-terrorism officials. |
| Posted by:Fred |