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Southeast Asia
Indonesia captures aide of top militant
2007-06-11
Indonesian police have captured a suspected aide of wanted militant Abu Dujana, who is thought to head a splinter group of Southeast Asian militant group Jemaah Islamiah (JI), a police spokesman said on Sunday. Dujana has replaced Noordin M Top, a Malaysian national considered a mastermind behind a series of bomb attacks, as Indonesia’s most wanted fugitive, deputy police chief Makbul Padmanegara told reporters last week. The captured man, named Mahfud but also known as Yusron, was caught by Detachment 88, Indonesia’s secretive anti-terror unit, in the town of Banyumas in Central Java, National Police spokesman Sisno Adiwinoto said by telephone. “We have captured Mahfud alias Yusron. He is suspected of being a member of Abu Dujana’s staff,” Adiwinoto said. Mahfud was caught on Saturday, said Adiwinoto, but no bombs had been found. He declined to give details of the operation. The spokesman said that from information provided by Mahfud they were looking for Dujana and other militants.
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