Indonesian police kill two terror suspects

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Indonesian police kill two terror suspects

2011-06-04 23:13:05 GMT+7 (ICT)

JAKARTA (BNO NEWS) -- Indonesian police on Saturday killed two terrorism suspects believed to have been involved in a shooting last month of two police officers, the Jakarta Globe reported.



"The two fugitives were killed in Poso at around 11:30 a.m. on Saturday in a mountainous area and their bodies have been taken to Palu Police Hospital for further examination," National Police spokesman Chief Comr. Boy Rafli Amar said. "We seized from them long-barrel weapons that they stole from our officers."

Three suspects are already in custody in connection with the May 25 attack in Palu, Central Sulawesi. Second Brigs. Gustiar Yudistira and Andi Ibrar were gunned down by unidentified assailants on motorcycles, while a third officer, Second Brig. Dedi Edwar, was injured. 


Police are investigating possible ties between the suspects and Abu Tholut, a convicted terrorist believed to be part of the Al Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah and the hard-line Jamaah Anshorut Tauhid. 

An officer with the National Police's elite counterterrorism unit, Densus 88, said two suspects in the shooting had confessed to working with Tholut when he visited the district of Poso in 2009.


Around 1,000 people were killed between 2001-02 in sectarian clashes between Muslims and Christians in Palu. Sporadic violence has continued to flare up in the area despite a truce in 2002.

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