Islam itulah yang menjadikan Indonesia sarang teroris... Four suspected terrorists arrested in Poso, more to come: Police Bagus BT Saragih and Ruslan Sangadji, The Jakarta Post, Poso | Archipelago | Sat, November 03 2012, 9:52 AM
The police have vowed to continue hunting down the perpetrators of a series of terror acts in Poso regency, Central Sulawesi, after an operation culminated in the arrest four suspects allegedly involved in killings and attacks in the Central Sulawesi's city. The latest arrest raises the number of suspects to seven, including one shot dead in Christian-majority Poso recently. The four suspects failed to escape Central Sulawesi Police Operation "Tutup Kota" (Sealed City), which was mainly traffic sweeps, on Thursday night Central Sulawesi Police chief Brig. Gen. Dewa Parsana said on Friday. "The suspects are implicated in at least five of the terrorist attacks in Poso since August," confirmed Dewa, who was in Poso. Dewa was referring to the shooting in Sepe Village in August which killed Noldi Ombolando; a shooting at Masani village in October which injured Hasman Sao; an explosion in Kawua in October; an explosion at a traffic police post in Poso in October which injured a policeman and a security officer, and the killing of two police officers, namely chief. Brig. Sudirman and First Brig. Andi Sappa whose bodies were found in Tamanjeka in October. "This is not the end of our operation. The manhunt will continue," Dewa said, adding that all the suspects and the seized evidence had been sent to the National Police headquarters in Jakarta. The investigation has found links to other acts of terrorism in 2011 and before. "Some of these new suspects are fugitives of the shooting at a security post at the Bank Central Asia in the provincial capital of Palu, which resulted in the deaths of two police officers, and whose firearms were stolen by the suspects," Dewa said. He added that the police had also found indications of the suspects' involvement in the operation of military-style training camps in Gunung Biru, Gunung Panapu, and Malino. All of these camps are in Poso regency. Also on Friday, Poso Police displayed some of the evidence seized during operations in the previous few days. The list of evidence included 26 detonators, 23 pieces of ammunition, one FN pistol, 15 explosives, one mine weighing 10 kilograms, four personal computers, machetes and traditional weapons some with blood stains dozens of broken cellular phones allegedly used to make electronic triggers, white powder, and some jihad-related books and documents. With a population of 215,000, Poso was the site of bloody clashes between Christians and the Muslim community between 1997 and 2001, when around 1,000 people were killed and 25,000 others displaced. Robi Sugara, a terrorism analyst who has been studying the roots of radicalism in Poso, suspects that the series of attacks in Poso could have been "masterminded" by radical groups outside Poso. "These groups have been attempting to utilize the historical aspect of Poso which suffered bloody Islam-Christian conflicts in 1998 until the early 2000s. The traumatized family members of victims of the conflicts are prone to abuse by extremists to radicalize them, and make them militant enough to commit such attacks," Robi told The Jakarta Post in Palu. ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
