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he police say investigators confiscated dozens of pornographic video CDs from the house of slain terrorist suspect Sigit Qordhowi in Surakarta, Central Java.

The finding came following a report by the Associated Press that pornography was also confiscated when US Navy SEAL commandos raided the hideout of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan on May 1.

National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Anton Bachrul Alam said other evidence confiscated during the five-hour search of Sigit’s parents’ home included Rp 53.2 million (US$6,224) in cash, two waistcoats, six audio cassettes, a bucket of calcium powder, a plastic bag of white cement, a one-meter-long wooden stick, an axe, two air rifles, a penknife, two mandau traditional swords from Kalimantan, a katana Japanese sword and a spike belt.

“We also confiscated 91 jihadi-themed books, 36 items of clothing, five pairs of three-quarter-length pants, eight kilograms of organic fertilizer, two kilograms of charcoal, a license plate, a cachet and two cell phones,” Anton said in a statement received by The Jakarta Post.

Sigit and his aide Hendro Yunianto were shot dead by officers from the National Police’s Detachment 88 counterterrorism unit during a raid in Sukoharjo, Central Java, on Saturday.

Human rights groups have demanded that the authorities thoroughly investigate the death of Nur Iman, a street food vendor who the police claimed was shot and killed by the terrorist suspects during the raid.

“The government must evaluate Detachment 88 immediately,” Haris Azhar, coordinator at the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) told the Post on Tuesday.

“Since 2010, the detachment has acted aggressively against suspected terrorists. They use a ‘combatant’ approach.”

According to Kontras, officers from Detachment 88 killed 24 people and wounded nine in shoot outs with alleged terrorists in six operations in 2010.

The unit also arrested 420 people, 19 of whom were arbitrarily arrested and eventually released, Kontras said.

Haris said the dead were mostly shot in the head and chest.

Sigit was suspected of masterminding the suicide bombing at a mosque inside the Cirebon Police compound in West Java in April.

Investigators also found indications of the two’s involvement in a minor bombing of a church and a market in Surakarta in December.

In Sigit’s parents’ house, the police found envelopes, stamps and letters requesting donations. The terrorist group allegedly led by Sigit, Tauhid Wal Jihad, reportedly used the letters to “extort nightlife entrepreneurs,” Anton said, adding that the shakedown allegedly financed their terrorist activities.

Investigators previously found several firearms, a grenade, hundreds of bullets, 7,600 nuts and bolts, and a laptop containing video clips showing Sigit training dozens of terrorist recruits, Anton said.

The lawyer representing the suspects, Anies Prijo Anshorie from the Muslim Lawyers Team (TPM), said the pornography belonged to Sigit’s younger brother. “The VCDs were seized by his father but they were somehow still kept in the house,” he told tempointeraktif.com.

University of Indonesia terrorism analyst Mardigu Wowiek Prasantyo said that Tauhid Wal Jihad had adopted a new stream of radical Islam and admired firebrand cleric, now terrorist defendant, Abu Bakar Ba’asyir, he said.

“This group is structurally separate from other older groups that we may already know. They have a different chain of command,” Mardigu said.