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Southeast Asia
Indonesia: Tip By Terror Convict Leads Police to Explosive Stash
2021-10-16
[BenarNews] Information obtained from a convicted pro-Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
bully boy led to the seizure of 35 kilos of home-made explosives at the foot of a mountain in West Java province earlier this month, Indonesian police said Wednesday.

Prisoner Imam Mulyana, a member of Jamaah Ansharut Daulah
...founded by our old friend Abu Bakar Bashir of Al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah fame, JAD translates cleverly as Partisans of the Islamic State, but really only means (Wink! Wink!) ISIS in Indonesia...
(JAD), an Indonesian bully boy network affiliated with the so-called Islamic State (IS) group, was arrested in 2017 in Cirebon, a city in West Java, for a failed attempt
...Curses! Foiled again!...
to attack an entourage of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo.

"Imam made an astonishing confession that he and his group had kept 35 kilograms of TATP," said Aswin Siregar, a top officer with Densus 88, Indonesia’s elite anti-terrorism police unit.

Imam guided the police to Mount Ciremai near Cirebon to find the stash of triacetone triperoxide (TATP), a powerful home-made explosive known to Lions of Islam as the Mother of Satan, Aswin told BenarNews.

TATP, which is highly unstable, has been used in several terrorist attacks in recent years. These include the 2005 London Underground bombing, terror attacks in Gay Paree in 2015, attacks on the Brussels metro and airport in 2016, and a bombing the next year at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, according to New America, a Washington think-tank.

"Thanks to our de-radicalization efforts, Imam Mulyana asked us on October 1 to secure the dangerous material," said Aswin, who heads the operational support at Densus 88, which also runs a program to reform Lions of Islam and reintegrate them into society.

Imam traveled with the police to the mountain hideout the same day. Aswin said that a police bomb-squad disposed of the stash of TATP in the mountain as soon as the authorities found it.

Only 50 grams of the materiel was enough to create a one-meter-wide and 20-centimeter-deep hole when detonated in a controlled explosion, Aswin said, adding the blasts from disposing of the explosive caused severe vibrations, holes in the ground, and landslides.

Imam, 31, "was fully aware that the terrorist act they had planned was a crime against humanity and a betrayal of his religion," Aswin said.

Stanislaus Riyanta, a security researcher at the University of Indonesia, praised the police for their work.

"This is proof that [the bully boys] had a big plan. This finding should prompt the police to look for more explosive stashes," Stanislaus told BenarNews.
Related:
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West Java province: 2020-08-16 Indonesian Police Catch ISIS-linked JAD Number 3, 14 Other Suspected Militants
West Java province: 2016-12-15 Arrested Indonesian woman says IS group militant ordered bombing
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Jamaah Ansharut Daulah: 2021-08-17 Indonesian Police Catch 48 Suspected Islamic Militants in Nationwide Dragnet
Jamaah Ansharut Daulah: 2021-07-05 Indonesian Police Fly Dozens of Suspected JAD Militants to Jakarta
Related:
Cirebon: 2017-04-28 Female Muslim clerics in Indonesia issue rare fatwas
Cirebon: 2012-02-01 10 Islamic militants sent to prison in Indonesia
Cirebon: 2011-10-09 Indonesian police arrest five over mosque bombing
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TATP: 2019-12-15 Mossad helps Denmark bust 20 terrorists - report
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