BODY OF NOORDIN’S ‘SUCCESSOR’ STILL BEING EXAMINED

      Jakarta, Oct 10 (ANTARA) – The bodies of two suspected terrorists  – one believed to be Noordin M Top’s successor, an expert in recruiting suicide bombers — are still being examined by forensic experts at Kramat Jati Police hospital.  Police will announce on Monday the identities of the two dead terror suspects.     However, police believe that [...]

NURDIN M TOP’s NETWORK PLANS MORE ATTACTS

Jakarta, Aug 8 (ANTARA) – The Indonesian police’s anti-terror unit, Densus 88, raided two terrorist hideouts in West Java and Central Java Saturday morning, killing three terror suspects, one believed to be Noordin M Top, before they could realize their plan to launch suicide bomb attacks on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s house and the State [...]

BOMB TERROR BEGISN TO IMPACT ON RI TOURISM

Jakarta, July 25 (ANTARA) – A week after the bomb blasts at two of Jakarta’s five-star hotels, the country’s tourism industry is beginning to feel the impact of the terror attacks with cancellations of visits by some foreign tourists to Bali and other regions in the country. Some hotels in Bali, Indonesia’s tourist resort island, [...]

PEOPLE CALLED ON NOT TO LINK TERROR TO ISLAM

Jakarta, July 20 (ANTARA) – Various Muslim leaders and organizations are calling on all sides not to link Islam to terror attacks which killed nine people and injured more than 50 others in Jakarta last week.
“Resorting to terror was not Islamic. Islam does not adopt that terror behavior. So, the bomb terror such as the [...]

JAKARTA BOMBING SPARKS POLITICAL SPECULATIONS

Jakarta, July 17 (ANTARA) – Friday’s bombings of JW Marriott and Ritz Carlton hotels in Jakarta which killed at least nine people in the runup to the announcement of last week’s presidential election results soon sparked speculations of political motives. “It is suspected that there are parties who are not satisfied with the results of [...]

TERRORIST BELIEVED TO BE NOORDIN M TOP KILLED IN POLICE RAID

Jakarta, Aug 8 (ANTARA) – The Indonesian police’s anti-terror unit,  Densus 88,  raided two terrorist hideouts in West Java and  Central Java Saturday morning, killing three terror suspects, one believed to be Noordin M Top, before they could realize their plan to launch suicide bomb attacks on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s house and the State Palace. “Their next [...]

SECURITY TIGHTENED IN BALI AFTER AMROZI’S EXECUTION

Jakarta, Nov 9 (ANTARA) – The local authorities tightened security in the Indonesian tourist resort island of Bali following the execution very early on Sunday of three death-row convicts Amrozi, Mukhlas alias Ali Ghufron and Imam Samudra, who bombed the island of god in 2002 killing at least 202 people. [...]

BALI BOMBERS TO BE EXECUTED EARLY NOVEMBER

      Jakarta, Oct 26 (ANTARA) – The Attorney General’s Office (AGO) statement on Friday that the Bali bombers on death row Amrozi, Ali Gufron or Mukhlas and Imam Samudra would be executed early next month, did not surprise many. The AGO might be serious in its statement and execution of Amrozi et al might really [...]

INDONESIA IS TOO SLOW IN EXECUTING BALI BOMBERS

Jakarta, July 21 (ANTARA) – The planned execution of Amrozi, Imam Samudera and Mukhlas –Indonesia’s notorious terrorists who bombed Bali and killed 202 people in October 2002– were until Monday still uncertain. “We have not received any notification yet about the execution of Amrozi and friends,” Bambang Winahyo, head of penitentiary affairs of the [...]

RI TERROR SUSPECTS LINKED WITH SINGAPORE NETWORK

Jakarta, July 3 (ANTARA) – The suspected terrorists who were arrested by the Indonesian anti-terror police in Palembang, South Sumatra, on Tuesday and Wednesday were said to have links with a terrorist network in Singapore.
According to National Police Chief Spokesman Insp. Gen. Abubakar Nataprawira, the suspected terrorists had links particularly [...]