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Indonesian police arrest 3 suspected militants, foil plot
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On guard – Mobile Brigade personnel from the Jakarta Police are on guard in front of a house in Setu, South Tangerang, Banten, where a suspected terrorist was shot dead in a raid on Dec.21, 2016. (Antara/Muhammad Iqbal)
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ndonesian police say they have arrested three suspected Islamic militants who were planning to attack a police station in East Java.
National Police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar said one of the men captured Friday, Zainal Anshori, was the leader in East Java of Jemaah Anshorut Daulah, a network of Indonesian extremists that claims allegiance to the Islamic State group.
Amar said the network was planning to attack a police station in East Java's Lamongan district next week.
The network formed in 2015 and is led from prison by radical cleric Aman Abdurrahman.
(Read also: Densus 88 arrests 7 suspected terrorists for bomb plan)
Muslim-majority Indonesia has carried out a sustained crackdown on militants since the 2002 Bali bombings by al-Qaida-affiliated radicals that killed 202 people. A new threat has emerged in the past several years from IS sympathizers.
