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| Indonesia sez terror threat is real |
| 2006-05-06 |
| A video with instructions on assembling a bomb found during a raid on the hideout of one of Asia's most wanted militants suggested terror threats are still real in the country, an Indonesian minister said. Police found the bomb-making guide on a laptop seized from a house in Central Java during last week's raid in which two militants were killed, but police failed to catch Noordin Top, Deputy police spokesman Anton Bachrul Alam told said. Top is wanted for several bombing attacks in the region and is seen as a key member of the militant Jemaah Islamiah (JI), a regional wing of al-Qaeda. Chief security minister Widodo Adi Sutjipto told reporters the video and the recent discovery of a backpack with crude bombs suggested militants were still active and have the ability to assemble bomb despite the death of chief bomb maker Azahari. Azahari often travelled with Top, according to intelligence officials. He was killed during a shootout in the East Java town of Malang last year. The backpack bombs found in another Central Java town were similar to the ones used in the bombings of cafes in the resort island of Bali last year. "The discovery of the bombs indicates that terror cells still have the capability to assemble their own bombs even though the expert died in Malang," Sutjipto told reporters. "This has proven that terror threats are real and active." JI is blamed for the October 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people and a series of other attacks. Aside from the initial Bali bombings, there have been deadly strikes attributed to Islamic militants against a luxury hotel in Jakarta in 2003, outside the Australian embassy in the capital in 2004, and at restaurants in Bali in 2005. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #2 security will be worse now Iran has promised $2 billion in aid to Indo: that is to build an oil refinery on Java (the epicentre of the aggressive Islamofascist Indo plague) near where a nuke reactor is to be built. Plus a big volcano on Java is rumbling. With any luck it will explode a la krakatoa and wipe the island with all its inhabitants from the face of the earth. |
| Posted by: anon1 2006-05-06 12:08 |
| #1 No sh*t Sherlock. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-05-06 10:50 |