Seven dead in Indonesian anti-terror raids
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130510/seven-dead-indonesian-anti-terror-raids
Indonesian police have shot dead seven terror suspects in raids over the
past two days, including several with alleged links to a plot to bomb the
Myanmar embassy, officials said Thursday.
Thirteen suspects were captured alive as an elite police unit swooped on
houses across the country's main island of Java, in the biggest
counter-terrorism operation in Indonesia for months.
As well as investigating links to the embassy plot, which has underscored
growing anger in Indonesia at anti-Muslim violence in largely Buddhist
Myanmar, police were targeting suspected terrorist fund-raisers.
In the latest raid, police shot dead three suspects at a rented house in
Kebumen district in Central Java and arrested four others early Thursday
after a 15-hour firefight, said national police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar.
"They put up resistance and fired shots from inside," he told reporters,
adding the men were suspected of being part of a network involved in
robberies to fund a militant group called Mujahidin Indonesia Timur (MIT).
Pipe bombs, grenades and pistols were seized from the property, said local
police chief Heru Prisasono.
Amar said police were also investigating if they were linked to a plot
uncovered last week to bomb the Myanmar embassy.
On Wednesday police shot dead three men suspected of involvement in the
Myanmar plot who were holed up at a house at Bandung in West Java. The
killings followed a seven-hour gunbattle, during which the men hurled
homemade bombs at police.
In a separate raid the same day, police in the central Java district of
Batang shot dead a man and arrested a second suspected of robbing a
jewellery store to fund terrorist activities.
In total, police carried out around 10 raids across Java.
The anti-terror operation came after police last week detained two men
suspected of planning to bomb the Myanmar embassy in Jakarta.
Myanmar has been rocked by several recent outbreaks of religious violence,
which have left many minority Muslims dead and tens of thousands displaced.
Indonesia has mounted a crackdown against terror networks over the past
decade in the wake of several deadly attacks on Western targets, and key
militant groups have been weakened.
But the Mujahidin Indonesia Timur -- East Indonesia Holy Warriors -- has up
till now largely evaded the crackdown, hiding out in the jungle around Poso
on Sulawesi island.
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