Suspected terrorists arrested in Indonesia flown to Jakarta

2008-07-04 09:26:59 [ Big Normal Small ]    　Comment

·Nine suspected terrorists who were arrested Wednesday have been taken to Jakarta.
·Police also confiscated certain evidence such as 19 home-made bombs.
·All nine will be charged with violating anti-terrorism laws. 

An Anti-terror police officer escorts a terror suspect after arriving at the Brigade Mobile headquarters in Depok on the outskirts of Jakarta July 3, 2008. Indonesian anti-terror police transferred nine terror suspects linked to Southeast Asia's most wanted fugitive Noordin Mohammad Top to Jakarta on Thursday, a police source said.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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    JAKARTA, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Nine suspected terrorists, arrested on Wednesday by anti-terror police in Palembang of Indonesian South Sumatra province, have been taken to Jakarta Thursday for further investigation, police spokesman said..

    "They have been taken from Palembang to Jakarta today for detention at the Police's Mobile Brigade's detention center in Kelapa Dua, Depok," Antara news agency quoted Chief of the Police Public Relations Affairs Insp. Gen. Abubakar Nataprawira as saying here on Thursday.

    Police also confiscated certain evidence such as 19 home-made bombs and potassium chlorate.

    "We still do not know who they are and to what networks they belong because they were arrested only yesterday," he said.

    The role of each suspect was also not yet known because the investigation was not yet finished, he added.

    In a raid on a house on Jalan Papera in Palembang, police discovered and seized eight partly-assembled bombs and 13 fully built-up bombs, and 50 kilogram of explosive materials.

    Earlier reports said among those detained one was a Singaporean who met several times with Osama bin Laden.

    The men allegedly first planned to attack foreign tourists on Sumatra Island, but decided to target Jakarta instead after realizing too many Indonesian lives could have been lost, TV One quoted anti-terror police as saying.

    All nine will be charged with violating anti-terrorism laws. If found guilty, they face a maximum penalty of death sentence.

    The suspects allegedly had ties with Southeast Asia's most wanted man, Noordin Top, a Malaysian fugitive who is believed to head the violent breakaway faction of Jemaah Islamiyah.

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