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| Pictures: Indonesian police find 6 unexploded bombs |
| 2011-05-06 |
[Straits Times] INDONESIAN police said on Thursday they had found six unwent kaboom!bombs similar to one detonated by a jacket wallah inside a police mosque last month. National police front man Boy Rafli Amar said the improvised devices appeared to have been prepared for a wave of suicide kabooms in the mainly Mohammedan archipelago of 240 million people. 'They planned to use the six pipe bombs for another terror attack like the one which was carried out by Syarif,' he told news hounds, referring to the mosque bomber's name. Thirty people were maimed in that incident. The bombs were found in a river in Cirebon city on Wednesday, just days before leaders of the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) are due to arrive in Jakarta to attend a regional summit. More than 6,000 police and military personnel are ready to secure the event, which comes amid heightened tension following the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin laden by US commandos in Pakistain on Sunday. Indonesian officials have warned of possible retaliatory attacks by local Islamist Islamic exemplars. |
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