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JAD planned car bomb attacks: Police
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On alert: Personnel of the National Police's Densus 88 counterterrorism squad are on guard on May 30 after they raided houses of suspected terrorists in Kampung Bugis, Kenali Besar, Alam Barajo, Jambi, in the previous day.
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ore than a dozen suspected terrorists arrested by the National Police’s Densus 88 counterterrorism squad in the past three weeks had reportedly been planning to launch car bomb attacks on police officers in several major cities, highlighting local militants’ ambition to inflict more severe harm on their targets.
The police said they had rounded up 41 people for having alleged links to Jama’ah Anshar Daulah (JAD), which the police said was responsible for the Kampung Melayu bombings that killed three police officers.
The May 24 bombings were the deadliest attack on the police in years, with previous attacks mostly killing only the suicide attackers.
National Police spokesperson Insp. Gen. Setyo Wasisto claimed on Thursday that local militants had been plotting car bomb attacks, which are far deadlier than the pressure cooker bombs used in Kampung Melayu.
The plot to launch car bomb attacks was revealed following the arrest of Fauzan Mubarok, the leader of the JAD cell in Central Java. Fauzan was allegedly planning simultaneous bomb attacks in Jakarta, Semarang and Surabaya using bombs that were hidden inside vans, Setyo said.
A car bomb was used by alQaeda-linked terrorist group Jama’ah Islamiyah (JI) in the 2002 Bali bombings that killed more than 200 people and the 2004 bombing at the Australian Embassy in Jakarta that killed at least nine people.
