Indonesian police have arrested the most wanted terrorist in the country Abu Dujana, who is the top leader of the militant group in Southeast Asia of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), police spokesman Sisno Adiwinoto said Wednesday. The spokesman said that the 37-year-old Dujana was arrested at the weekend at his house in Banyuwangi of Central Java province. The police also arrested seven other terrorist suspects in the province during the raid.
After an intensified investigation and DNA test, the police found out that the man who named Yusron Mahmudi was Abu Dujana.
"Based on the interrogation, including investigation on the crime scene, it was known that Yusron Mahmudi has many alias names, one of them is Abu Dujana," said Adiwinoto.
Dujana, who was born in Cianjur of West Java province, was a field commander of the JI and also a strategic planner in the group. He became the head of military wing of the militant group in the region after the death of Azahari Husin in 2005.
The police said that he gave protection and provided a hide-out for fugitive terrorist coordinator in Indonesia Noerdin Mohammad Top.
Dujana was involved in the first Bali bombing in 2002, sectarian clashes in Poso of Central Sulawesi six years ago. Over 200 people were killed in the Bali bombing, most of them Australians.
In 1989 he went to Afghanistan and got military training in Mujahiddin Academy until 1991.
In Afghanistan he built a friendship with Zulkarnaen, a perpetrator of the Bali bombing.
In 1991, he left Afghanistan and became a teacher in a boarding school of Lukmannul Hakim in Johor Malaysia, where he met with Mukhlas, who played a key role in the Bali bombing.
He met Noerdin Mohammad Top, the terrorist coordinator in Indonesia. Noerdin is one of the most wanted terrorist fugitives in Indonesia now. In 2002 Dujana was appointed secretary of the JI in Southeast Asia.
Indonesia has been hit by a string of major terrorist strikes since 2000, which killed more than 300 people.
Source: Xinhua
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After an intensified investigation and DNA test, the police found out that the man who named Yusron Mahmudi was Abu Dujana.
"Based on the interrogation, including investigation on the crime scene, it was known that Yusron Mahmudi has many alias names, one of them is Abu Dujana," said Adiwinoto.
Dujana, who was born in Cianjur of West Java province, was a field commander of the JI and also a strategic planner in the group. He became the head of military wing of the militant group in the region after the death of Azahari Husin in 2005.
The police said that he gave protection and provided a hide-out for fugitive terrorist coordinator in Indonesia Noerdin Mohammad Top.
Dujana was involved in the first Bali bombing in 2002, sectarian clashes in Poso of Central Sulawesi six years ago. Over 200 people were killed in the Bali bombing, most of them Australians.
In 1989 he went to Afghanistan and got military training in Mujahiddin Academy until 1991.
In Afghanistan he built a friendship with Zulkarnaen, a perpetrator of the Bali bombing.
In 1991, he left Afghanistan and became a teacher in a boarding school of Lukmannul Hakim in Johor Malaysia, where he met with Mukhlas, who played a key role in the Bali bombing.
He met Noerdin Mohammad Top, the terrorist coordinator in Indonesia. Noerdin is one of the most wanted terrorist fugitives in Indonesia now. In 2002 Dujana was appointed secretary of the JI in Southeast Asia.
Indonesia has been hit by a string of major terrorist strikes since 2000, which killed more than 300 people.
Source: Xinhua
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