Lee's blog for Jour 3101

In The New York Times article, the Indonesian police raided two neighborhoods near to the capital, Jakarta, and arrested at least five suspects linked to regional Islamic terrorist groups on Wednesday. Police suggested that the group might have been planning attack a near state-owned oil storage facility. One of the suspects as Rusli Mardani, who is widely believed by the authorities to have been be an instigator of anti-Christian violence. The police said the suspects might have connections to Noordin M. Top, the most-wanted militants in the Southeast Asia. Tops is believed to be responsible for several major bombings in Indonesia. The suspects were thought to have connections with Tops was because the sophisticated bomb-making materials were similar to those used by Top in the pas, according to the police.

The Yahoo! News article reported that the police deputy spokesman Sulistyo Ishak said “It would have been very dangerous if the police had failed to find the explosives.� Ishak also said that the data and analysis showed the suspects had been students of Azahari Husin, a notoriously callous explosives expert who was killed in 2005. He also said that the printed circuit boards showed the suspects are making more sophisticated bombs than before. The other four suspects were identified as Muntasir, Hasan, Imam Basori alias Basar, and Budiman.