From the Khaleej Times, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm.
JAKARTA - Authorities have accused assailants involved in a recent armed attack on a police post in Indonesia’s eastern province of Maluku of having links with Al Qaeda, an official said on Tuesday.Maluku Police Chief Brigadier General Aditya Warman said the evidence came from the capture and interrogation of several suspects involved in the recent attack on a Mobile Brigade (Brimob) post that left five policemen dead.
“We are continuing to investigate them as they are indeed linked to Al Qaeda,” Aditya Warman was quoted as saying by the state-run news agency Antara after a meeting with local religious figures and political party leaders.
Those questioned by police were allegedly part of a network responsible for a series of violent incidents in the provincial capital of Ambon, 2,340 kilometres northeast of Jakarta, that included the assassination of a reverend and a number of bombings, the police chief said.
“I have long stated that the incidents were the work of well trained people, and I was right,” Aditya said. “They are civilians with extraordinary capabilities.”
Aditya requested during the meeting that religious figures help police deal with the incidents, and said the masterminds behind the violence came from outside Maluku province.
“But they also use local people in carrying out their missions. They have relations with a number of terrorists currently wanted by the security authorities, like Dr Azahari,” Aditya said, referring to the most-wanted Malaysian fugitive accused of links to the worst terrorist attacks on foreigners in recent years...
Daisytoo:
They are the modern day equivalent of the Flat Earth Society. There is all the evidence in the world that Saddam and Osama were cooperating with each other and that Saddam had WMDs but just kept moving them around, and, probably, ultimately to Syria.
waterdragon52-
Even if Saddam weas "between WMD's" when the coalition struck Iraq, he had them (See: thousands of dead Kurds gassed in 1988) and would have had them again, as soon as the U.N. inspectors gave his regime a "clean bill of health" and packed up to go.
Iraq was an object lesson to the neighbors (Pakistan and Iran and Libya) that Bush and Rumsfeld and Cheney and Rice do not know how to explain to their own advantage.
For their ineptitude, our soliders in the field pay.
May the next administration have a brain larger than its testicles.
(And testicles larger than its lapel flag.)
BigSleep:
No doubt in my mind, but that Saddam was up to his arse in all sorts of prohibitted materials, and probably right up to the very end, as certain sites were "looted" by looters driving big transports, the getaway car of choice of most of the rabble, I'm sure.
I also recall a news item in the New Duranty Times early after the invasion, reporting the finding of a very large concrete building/complex out in the middle of nowhere that had been scrubbed clean from top to bottom. Nothing suspect about that. I'm sure Saddam built all sorts of facilities like that for nothing.