Police arrest terrorist M Top's father-in-law

The police arrested Bahrudin Latif alias Baridin, the father-in-law of slain-terrorist Noordin M Top, at the south coast of West Java, near the border with Central Java, on Thursday morning.

TVOne reported that the police arrested Baridin at Ciamis at about 5 a.m., but so far there is no official confirmation from the police.

Meanwhile, Antara reported that people in Pasuruan village, Binangun district in Cilacap regency, Central Java, where Baridin is from, welcomed Baridin's arrest.

"We feel relieved after knowing the news that Pak Baridin has been arrested so that the problem of terrorism would not anymore cloud our village," Pasuruan village head Watim Suseno was quoted by Antara as saying.

Watim said that people in Pasuruan had repeatedly urged the family of Baridin to ask him to surrender to the police.

"With his arrest, we hope that the law will solve this problem," he said.

Noordin M Top, who was killed in a police raid on a house in Surakarta, Central Java, married Baridin's daughter, Arina. Arina was Noordin's third wife.

Baridin went to hiding after the police arrested terrorist suspect Saefudin Zuhry at Nusawungu, Cilacap last June.