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| 2006-08-24 |
| Jakarta Post, 24 August (AKI/Jakarta Post) - Police have arrested two men for allegedly using cybertechnology to support terror attacks in Indonesia. Cyber Crime Unit chief Sr. Comr. Petrus Reinhard Golose said Wednesday that the two men were Mohammad Agung Prabowo, 23, and Agung Setyadi, 31. They were detained separately earlier this month in Semarang, Central Java. Police arrested 23-year old Prabowo, known as Max Fiderman in hacker circles, on 12 August. He allegedly helped register a website, www.anshar.net, with UK-based hosting site www.openhosting.co.uk and German site www.joker.com late last year, said Golose. Golose added that the www.anshar.net website had been designed between June and August of last year by Abdul Azis, who is currently on trial in Bali. He's accused of creating the site for Noordin M. Top, the alleged mastermind of several bombings in Indonesia, including the Bali I and II bombings. The website was used to deliver information related to their operations. The information included tips on how to carry out attacks in public places during traffic jams and backups at freeway interchanges or shopping malls and hotels. Some of the specific public places mentioned as possible locations for attacks were the Planet Hollywood restaurant, the Jakarta Convention Center, and Senayan Golf Driving Range, all in South Jakarta, and Ancol Recreation Park in North Jakarta. Police arrested the other suspect, Agung Setyadi, on 16 August in Semarang, Central Java. Setyadi is accused of smuggling a laptop to Imam Samudera in Krobokan prison in Denpasar, Bali, after being sentenced to death for his role in the 2002 Bali bombing. "Setyadi used a delivery service to send the laptop to the address of an official at the Krobokan prison, who then forwarded it to Imam," said Golose. He said Imam used the laptop to communicate with Setyadi and other militants about how to use the Internet to carry out credit card fraud to fund terror attacks, before he was moved to the high-security Nusa Kembangan prison in October following the second Bali bombing on 1 October, 2005. Imam also allegedly engaged in intense communication with unidentified people before the second Bali attack, but police have yet to find evidence he was in contact with anyone directly involved in that bombing, added Golose. The police said they seized a laptop along with its warranty card from the suspected terrorists, as well as two cell phones, three Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards, one flash disk, one Bluetooth USB, two hard disks, six CDs, one CD box, two bank books, and several documents released by Osama bin Laden. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #1 "Setyadi used a delivery service to send the laptop to the address of an official at the Krobokan prison, who then forwarded it to Imam," said Golose. Delivery agencies tend to keep detailed records of their work orders. So, why haven't we heard of an "official at the Krobokan prison" being apprehended and charged with complicity in the second round of Bali atrocities? This all leads me to think that Prabowo and Setyadi are undergoing a grueling interrogation that involves iced drinks, young women on soft cushions and soothing music. Fetch the comfy chair! |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-08-24 18:03 |