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| Southeast Asia |
| Indonesian police discover backpack explosives |
| 2006-05-02 |
| Indonesia's anti-terror squad found a backpack containing explosives similar to those used in the October 2005 Bali bombings that killed 20 people on the resort island, including three suicide bombers, a police official said Monday. National police spokesman Brigadier General Anton Bachrul Alam said police found the homemade bomb early Sunday in a storage unit in the Central Javanese town of Temanggung following a tip from two militants arrested in a weekend raid on their hideout. Alam said the discovery of the bomb was the result of the interrogation of two terrorist suspects following their arrest during a police raid in the Central Java district of Wonosobo on Saturday, and added that the explosives were 'like those used in the Bali bombings.' He said police were still searching for more explosives. The two arrested suspects, identified as Mustafirin and Sholahuddin, are strongly believed to be close aides to most wanted Malaysian terror suspect Noordin Mohammed Top. Two other Muslim militants were killed in the pre-dawn raid Saturday, but police failed to capture Top, and claimed the country's most wanted terror suspect fled before the operation. Alam also said during the raid police seized two rifles, several laptops, detonators and a number of documents belonging to the slain terrorist suspects. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |