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Southeast Asia |
7 suspected terrorists moved to Indonesian capital for interrogation |
2007-04-04 |
![]() The men are believed to be members of Jemaah Islamiyah, which is seeking to create an Islamic state across Southeast Asia. The network has been blamed for a string of deadly bombings in Indonesia — the world's most populous Muslim country — in the last five years. Four of the suspects were captured during a March 20 raid on a busy street near the city of Yogyakarta, authorities said, and those suspects eventually tipped off police to the whereabouts of the other three in East Java. An eighth suspect was fatally shot by police. Among the evidence seized in the two raids were 20 active bombs, 800 kilograms (1,700 pounds) of explosives, nearly 20 detonators, three M-16 automatic rifles, six pistols, and 1,500 bullets, police said. |
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