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| Indonesian police arrest another terror suspect | |
| 2006-01-24 | |
| JAKARTA - Indonesian police on Tuesday said they had arrested another man suspected of assisting a fugitive Malaysian extremist involved in last October’s Bali suicide bombings. A man named Catur was arrested in the Central Java capital of Semarang by elite anti-terror police and their local counterparts, national police deputy spokesman Anton Bahrul Alam told reporters. Several other Bali bombing suspects have been nabbed in the same city. Alam said that Catur was suspected of assisting Malaysian fugitive Noordin Mohammad Top, but police were still interrogating him. Alam said Noordin would “hopefully soon be captured. “He moves around, but we already know who the people around him are,” he said, adding that Noordin tapped into networks in each area he visited. Alam said one man arrested last week in connection with the attacks had been released due to a lack of evidence but must periodically report to police. Ten people were currently detained on suspicion of involvement in the latest Bali bombings, six on Java and four on the island of Bali itself, while police continued hunting for more suspects, he said. One of the detained suspects had been in possession of a revolver used by two others to rob a cellular phone shop, he added. Experts believe Noordin and Azahari, who was killed by police in a raid on his hideout in Java last November, may have split from JI to form an even more radical offshoot.
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| Posted by:Steve |