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http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_253988.html

 

July 3, 2008 Singaporean among nine nabbed with powerful bombs in Sumatra Report says the men are linked to wanted terrorist Noordin Top JAKARTA - A SINGAPOREAN who met several times with Osama bin Laden was among nine terror suspects arrested yesterday with a cache of powerful bombs, an Indonesian television station said last night.

TVOne quoted police as saying the men had been plotting an attack on Western tourists, but decided to postpone the strike after realising that too many Indonesians could also be victims.

 

The suspects, linked to one of South-east Asia's most wanted men, were arrested in Palembang, on the Sumatra coast.

TVOne said the men had ties to Noordin Top, a Malaysian who has been blamed for a string of deadly attacks in the predominantly Muslim nation since 2002.

 

A source said that police also believed one of the suspects was a close friend of Azahari Husin, a Malaysian bombmaker for regional militant network Jemaah Islamiah who is alleged to have played key roles in attacks in Indonesia.

 

Azahari died in a police raid in East Java in 2005.

 

Police spokesman Abubakar Nataprawira confirmed that arrests had been made and explosives seized, but could not provide details.

 

'I can confirm the arrests there but I am unable to say how many,' said police spokesman Abubakar Nataprawira.

'I have been informed there were assembled bombs.'

 

The eight explosives in their possession were five times as powerful as those used in the 2005 triple-suicide attacks on the resort island of Bali that killed 20 people, TVOne quoted police as saying.

 

The station showed footage of the home-made devices.

 

Noordin Top is believed to head a breakaway faction of JI that is committed to Al-Qaeda-style attacks on Western, civilian targets. He is still on the loose.

 

Recent police documents showed that JI has maintained the ability and desire to forge international links despite a crackdown that has resulted in the arrests and convictions of hundreds of Islamic militants.

 

The detentions came as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was visiting the area in Sumatra.

 

No further details on the Singaporean or his links to Osama were available.

 

A police source involved in the raids said of the suspects: 'Some of them are Indonesians and some others, foreigners. We also found plenty of bombs.'

 

A series of raids, often involving Detachment 88, a police unit funded and trained by the United States and Australia, have led to the arrest of hundreds of militant suspects.

 

ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS

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if he escape, it may only prove that Wrong Can't Sac is underpaid. mebbe he sud b paid more then the PM so we can b sure....

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laugh.giflaugh.giflaugh.gif haha lame right....blame the job being difficult instead of the person being incompetent

 

大便不出,赖马桶

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they already said GST has to b raised to 10%... tat will kena faster than anything bad u imagine.

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