The Jakarta Post, 3/26/2007 6:18:15 PM
Police arrest another terror suspect; seize 12.5 kilograms
explosives
SURABAYA (JP): Police Monday arrested a terror suspect and seized 12.5 kilograms
of TNT, explosive material, in a house in the second largest Indonesian city of
Surabaya, East Java.
MetroTV television reported that Achmad Sahrul Umam alias Khoirul was arrested in a
crowded residential area on Jl. Simo Gunung Baru Jaya Blok D III/74 in the provincial
capital of Surabaya.
Neighbors of Khoirul said that they never thought that Khoirul was a member of terror
group.
Last week, the police also founded more than 500 kilograms of explosive materials,
hundreds of bullets, and dozens of firearms in Central Java town of Sidoharjo, Central
Java. The police also killed one suspected terror and detained several others both in
Yogyakarta and Central Java provinces.
There is no immediate information about the link of explosive materials in East Java
and Central Java. (**)
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