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Layanan Informasi Aktual [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sabtu, 8 Nopember 2003 Fugitive JI bomber
played key role in recent Poso attacks: Official
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JAKARTA (AFP): A leading member of the Jamaah Islamiyah (JI) terror group who is wanted for the Bali bombings played an important role in last month's deadly attacks in Christians in Indonesia, a top security official said Friday. Police reports showed that Dulmatin, who allegedly helped make the Bali bombs, had "indeed played an important role" in the attacks which killed 10 people in Central Sulawesi, said police Inspector General Ansyaad Mbai. Mbai, who heads the security ministry's anti-terror desk, is the first official publicly to blame the al Qaeda-linked JI for the attacks in the Poso district. "We have clear facts of his involvement in the violence in Poso," Mbai told AFP. He said police learned that Dulmatin had been in Poso at the time of the killings. "He might still be hiding there but he might have already left the area." Masked gunmen killed 10 people in mainly Christian villages in the religiously-divided Poso district. Eight of them died in raids on three villages on October 12, the first anniversary of the Bali blasts which killed 202 people and which are blamed on JI. |
