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| Indonesia admits handing over Farouq to US |
| 2002-09-20 |
| Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has said that the government has acknowledged the plan to arrest Omar Al-Faruq, a ‘terrorist' suspect who was arrested in West Java, on June 5, 2002 and handed over to the US three days later, and the arrest itself. The arrest was carried out by Indonesian intelligence after conducting an investigation into the matter. That's gonna wad the Islamist underwear... Yudhoyono said that in regards to the ‘war against terrorism', an international cooperation, including exchanging intelligence information between Indonesia and Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Australia, Europe and US, has been established. He added that the US has played an important role in supplying information on terrorism activities in Indonesia. However, the government would respond the information properly according to the Indonesian law. Wouldn't want to cheese off anybody important. Like the vice president. Yudhoyono added that police have carried out investigations on Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, Omar Al-Faruq, Abu Daud and others. And finally did something about one of them... The government would not arrest or carry out legal process on these people before verifying the information from foreign intelligence agencies. "Therefore, the Indonesian people should be more relaxed on this matter. The state will not be hasty to take legal action against people without proper investigation," said Yudhoyono. "Then, if it's okay with them, we'll arrest them for a few days and let them go." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |