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Police link Fadli to Malay, Thai terrorists
JAKARTA: Police say recently captured Indonesian terror suspect Fadli Sadama is connected to terrorist networks in Malaysia and southern Thailand
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AKARTA: Police say recently captured Indonesian terror suspect Fadli Sadama is connected to terrorist networks in Malaysia and southern Thailand.
“Fadli planned to train in the two countries before returning to Indonesia to plot acts of terrorism in Pekanbaru, Riau province, and in the Mount Anak Krakatau area, with foreign tourists as his main target,” National Antiterror Agency (BNPT) director Sr. Comr. Petrus Golose said on Saturday.
“Fadli had planned to launch an attack in Pekanbaru similar to the one in Mumbai, India, some time ago,” Golose said.
The Malaysian and Thai groups were thought to have been in regular contact with Fadli, Petrus said.
Fadli Sadama and another suspect, Tony Togar, planned the brazen robbery of a CIMB bank branch in Medan in August, Golose said, adding that Togar had been arrested for his role in the JW Marriott hotel blast in Jakarta in 2003.
Fadli Sadama, 28, was armed with two handguns when captured in Malaysia in October. He was extradited to Indonesia on Saturday, according to a source.
Indonesian authorities and the Royal Malaysian Police Special Branch (PDRM), Malaysia’s intelligence and counterterrorism agency, shared resources to arrest Fadil, Golose said. — JP
