Javanese terror suspects killed

Vancouver News.Net
Tuesday 9th March, 2010

Indonesian police have confirmed the deaths of three terrorists in raids outside the capital, Jakarta.

It has been confirmed by Indonesia's president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, that one of the dead is the man known as Dulmatin, who is alleged to have made the bombs that killed 202 people in Bali nightclubs in 2002.

The announcement was made by the Indonesian president in Australia, where he is on a visit.

Dulmatin, a 39-year-old Indonesian said to have been trained by al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, was shot in a raid on a cafe.

Indonesian National Police officials said there had been a short-lived gun battle between Dulmatin and police at the scene of the first capture, in Pamulang city on the outskirts of Jakarta.

In the second raid, police shot and killed two suspects on a motorcycle. The pillion passenger had been firing at police.

The raids were supposedly based on information taken from other suspects who were arrested in the Indonesian province of Aceh in February.

There have been a series of raids on a suspected Jemaah Islamiyah cell in Aceh over the past month.

Jemaah Islamiyah is a Southeast Asian extremist group inspired by al-Qaeda.

The latest raids have netted men that police believe may have been involved in the Bali bombings plus another fifty bombings carried out in Indonesia since April 1999, including attacks which killed nine people in Jakarta last July.

Most of the people killed in the 2002 Bali bombings were foreign tourists, 88 of them Australians.

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