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5 ISLAMIC SUSPECTS SHOT DEAD IN BALI

Published March 19, 2012

5 ISLAMIC SUSPECTS SHOT DEAD IN BALI

 




Indonesian police, on Sunday 03/18/2012, have shot dead five suspected militants on Bali island, officials said. The men, killed in two raids on Sunday, had targeted several locations in Bali, the chief of Indonesia’s anti-terror unit said.

Officers also seized firearms and ammunition on the island, where a bombing in 2002 killed more than 200 (see – Bali ‘02 Bombings). The five are believed to be linked to the INDONESIAN JI, “This is… a splinter group of Jemaah Islamiah,” National police spokesman Saud Usman Nasution told Reuters news agency.

The suspects killed late Sunday are believed to be linked to a militant group that carried out bank robberies in Medan, Sumatra in western Indonesia in 2010. The group had also reportedly been responsible for setting up paramilitary training in Aceh and in Solo, central Java, authorities said (see – Banda Aceh 02.23.10).

Indonesian police said the five men had been under police surveillance for a month.They were planning to carry out robberies on the island to raise funds for terror related activities, police said.
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The two raids took place in Bali’s capital city, Denpasar and at a hotel in Sanur, a popular tourist district. Three men were killed at the hotel and another two died in Denpasar.

Unite 88, which carried out the operation in Bali, has often come under criticism for being too quick to kill, but says the men were shot at and killed because they resisted arrest.

 

 

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