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Police arrest alleged terrorist in Banten

The National Police’s Densus 88 counterterrorism unit has arrested a suspected terrorist and two persons presumed to have undertaken terrorist training in Aceh and to have been involved in the CIMB Niaga Bank robbery in Medan, North Sumatra, in 2010

The Jakarta Post
Serang
Wed, August 27, 2014

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Police arrest alleged terrorist in Banten

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he National Police'€™s Densus 88 counterterrorism unit has arrested a suspected terrorist and two persons presumed to have undertaken terrorist training in Aceh and to have been involved in the CIMB Niaga Bank robbery in Medan, North Sumatra, in 2010.

'€œThree persons were taken by special forces to Jakarta. One person, who has claimed to be the wife of a suspect, has been detained at Serang Resort Police Headquarters,'€ Serang Police Chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Yudi Hermawan said on Tuesday.

Antara news agency reported that the police had raided a shophouse on Jl. Lingkar Selatan, Serang, on Tuesday at 9 a.m.

The suspects had been staying in the two-story building, leased for Rp 25 million (US$2,135) per year, for two weeks. Yudi said that according to the lessor, the suspects had wanted to sell iced beverages at the shophouse.

 

 

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