Indonesia arrests suspected embassy plot mastermind

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AFP Jakarta
Last Updated : May 23 2013 | 3:56 PM IST
Indonesian police have arrested the alleged mastermind of a failed plot to bomb the Myanmar embassy and another man suspected of being the bombmaker, an official said today.
Sigit Indrajit was detained yesterday in Jakarta as he got off a boat that had arrived from Sumatra island, national police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar told AFP, adding that he was "the planner of the attack".
The second suspect, identified only as Rohadi, was detained early today at a house on the outskirts of Jakarta where officers found bomb-making materials including fertiliser, Amar said.
"We believe Rohadi played the role of bombmaker," the spokesman said.
The police elite anti-terror unit had been searching for Indrajit since the plot was foiled on May 2 when two men were arrested with five pipe bombs in a backpack in a busy south Jakarta neighbourhood.
Police said they had been planning to attack the embassy in Jakarta the following day.
After the plot was uncovered, police launched a major counter-terror operation focused mainly on the main island of Java, killing eight terror suspects and arresting more than 20 others.
There is growing anger in Muslim-majority Indonesia over religious clashes in largely-Buddhist Myanmar that have left many minority Muslims dead and tens of thousands displaced.
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First Published: May 23 2013 | 3:56 PM IST

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