Indonesian police say four terror suspects arrested in weekend raids

JAKARTA (AP): Four suspected members of the al-Qaida-linked militant group Jemaah Islamiyah were arrested in weekend raids, including a top aide to Indonesia's most wanted terrorist, Abu Dujana, police said Monday.

The men were being questioned in Central Java province, said police spokesman Sisno Adiwinoto, though he provided few other details.

Dujana's right hand man, Yusron Ahmahmud, was shot in the leg while trying to escape an anti-terror squad in Kebarongan village, Adiwinoto had said Sunday. The three other suspects were also members of Jemaah Islamiyah, the police spokesman said Monday.

The militant group is blamed for a string of deadly bombings in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.

Twin nightclub bombings on Bali island in 2002, blasts in Jakarta at the J.W. Marriott Hotel and the Australian Embassy in Jakarta in 2003 and 2004, and the 2005 restaurant bombings on Bali together killed more than 240 people, many of them foreign tourists.

Adiwinoto said Dujana, who replaced Abu Rusdan as head of the terror network four years ago, was the main target of anti-terror operations. The Afghan-trained militant is fluent in Arabic.





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