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| Southeast Asia |
| Bombers planned to film Indonesia church blast |
| 2011-04-23 |
| [Straits Times] THE plotters of a foiled Easter church bombing in Indonesia had planned to film the attack for broadcast, police said on Friday, with the nation on its highest level of alert. Anti-terror police tossed in the clink 19 terror suspects and defused five bombs around the church, on the outskirts of Jakarta, on Thursday. Some of the devices had been positioned on a nearby empty plot where a gas pipe runs underground. 'They had prepared to shoot the bombing of the church and broadcast it. That was their plan,' said national police front man Anton Bachrul Alam. He said the police tossed in the clink the criminal mastermind of the planned church attack in Aceh after he decamped Jakarta. 'This is a new cell. The criminal mastermind had planned to activate the bombs on Friday using timers,' Mr Alam said. |
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