The Jakarta Post, October 04, 2006
Police arrest woman with high explosives
Indra Harsaputra, The Jakarta Post, Surabaya
A 55-year old woman was arrested Tuesday with two kilograms of TNT at the Sidoarjo
train station in East Java province, police said.
They said authorities were trying to determine whether she had links to terrorism in
the country.
The suspect, identified as Kangiani from Madura island, was being questioned at East
Java Police headquarters in Surabaya, the country's second largest city, the provincial
police chief of detectives Sr. Comr. Amhar Azeth said.
He said Kangiani was arrested upon getting off a train at the Sidoarjo railway station
at around 9 a.m.
The arrest of the woman wearing a headscarf was made as she was "behaving
suspiciously" while carrying a big bag, Amhar added.
"After being searched, she was found to bring two kilograms of TNT," he said.
"She is being detained at the East Java police headquarters for intensive questioning.
We are investigating her possible terror network and the motive behind her move to
carry the high explosives."
Police were searching for key terrorist fugitive Noordin M. Top, an alleged operative of
the al-Qaeda-linked militant group Jamaah Islamiyah.
The clandestine group has been blamed for a series of attacks in the world's most
populous Muslim nation since 2002, killing more than 240 people, many of them
foreign tourists.
All of the bomb attacks have been carried out between August and October, a period
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono described last year as the "bombing season".
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