Police kill terror suspect during raid in central Indonesia; bomb seized

By Niniek Karmini, AP
Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Indonesia police raid terror hide-out; 1 dead

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Members of an elite anti-terror squad raided a suspected militant hide-out in central Indonesia on Wednesday, killing one man and arresting three others, possibly including the country’s most wanted man, witnesses and police said.

An investigator who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the case said one of the suspects taken alive was Abdullah Sunata, the country’s most wanted terror suspect.

Brig. Gen. Zaenuri Lubis, a spokesman for the national police, said on local station Metro TV that he could not confirm that.

“I don’t have information yet from the field,” he said.

Officers raided a rented home in Klaten, a village in Central Java, late Wednesday afternoon. At least nine shots were fired, Jimo, a neighbor, told the AP. The area was cleared of residents while experts tried to detonate a bomb discovered in the home.

Indonesia has battled Islamist militants with links to al-Qaida since 2002, when extremists bombed a nightclub district on Bali island, killing 202 people, most of them foreigners. Since then, hundreds of militants have been captured or killed in a security crackdown, but they have proved to be a resilient foe.

Sunata became the country’s most wanted terror suspect after police uncovered a new terror network that he allegedly founded in Aceh province.

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