http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/11/03/14-arrested-after-police-operation-poso.html
14 arrested after police operation in Poso Bagus BT Saragih and Ruslan Sangadji, The Jakarta Post, Poso, Central Sulawesi | Archipelago | Sat, November 03 2012, 7:17 PM A- A A+ Outnumbered:: A man is apprehended by Densus 88 counterterrorism agents for allegedly throwing a homemade bomb at police officers after a police operation in Kayamanya subdistrict, Poso, Central Sulawesi, on Saturday. The man said he was protesting the fatal shooting of suspected terrorist Khalid Tumbingo by the squad. (JP/Ruslan Sangadji) The police operation targeted a group of suspected terrorists in Poso, Central Sulawesi, on Saturday left one people killed and 14 others arrested for allegedly involved in a series of violence and attacks in the province. Over the past five days, the police operation in the area had claimed two lives. Twenty people have been detained. Central Sulawesi Police Chief Brig. Gen. Dewa Parsana said that Abdul Halid, 24, who was killed in a gunfire with the National Police's Detachment 88 Antiterror Squad on Saturday morning, was considered a "leader" among his group. Dewa said that Yasin, who was arrested in the same police operation, was known as a respectable Islamic leader whose role was distributing radical Islamic lessons to Poso's Muslims. "The killing of Halid and the arrest of Yasin have resulted in a sporadic violence of their diehard supporters. When we attempted to calm them down, they even attacked us by throwing stones and explosives," Dewa said in the Poso Police office. Their supporters ran amok after their demand to have Halid's corpse, which was taken to Palu, could not be immediately fulfilled by the police. It took at least five hours for the police to return Halid’s body from Palu to Poso. The "solidarity" of the extremists had led to 13 being arrested by the police on Saturday afternoon. ++++ http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/11/03/one-killed-gunfire-with-police-poso.html One killed in gunfire with police in Poso Ruslan Sangadji and Bagus BT Saragih, The Jakarta Post, Poso, Central Sulawesi | Archipelago | Sat, November 03 2012, 10:05 AM One terrorist suspect, identified as Khalid Tumbingo, was killed in a police operation in Poso, Central Sulawesi, on Saturday at 6 a.m. Khalid, 24, was shot dead in the grounds of SDN 27 state elementary school in Kayamanya, Poso Kota district. According to eyewitnesses, Khalid was among a group of people involved in gunfire near the Central Poso market. The group also threw explosives at the police, creating panic among residents. Dozens of members of the National Police's Detachment 88 antiterror squad and Mobile Brigade, who were backed up by the military, continued to attack the suspects, who fled in different directions. Khalid ran into an alley leading to the school, where he was eventually shot dead. A housewife living in front of the school said she woke up to the sound of gunshots. "I cannot recall how many gunshots, but it was more than one," the woman, who chose to remain anonymous, told The Jakarta Post. Most people in the area were reluctant to talk to the press. A spot of blood could be seen in the soil just a meter from the school principal’s office. School principal Nuraini H. Mahdin arrived at the school two hours after the incident and asked whether students should attend school on Saturday. As of 9 a.m., no police officials had made a statement. Some police officers who requested anonymity said that Khalid's corpse had been taken to the provincial capital of Palu before being flown to Jakarta. Another police officer said one suspect had been arrested alive. He was reportedly identified as Yasin, a prominent Islamic cleric among Poso locals. Yasin was reportedly linked to a radical Islamic groups based in Tanah Runtuh, on the outskirts of Poso city. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
