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Indonesia captures most-wanted Islamic militant

June 14, 2007 00:00:00


JAKARTA, June 13 (Reuters): Indonesian police have captured the country's most-wanted militant, Abu Dujana, who heads a military wing of the Southeast Asian militant group Jemaah Islamiah (JI), a police spokesman said Wednesday.
Dujana had been sought in connection with several deadly bomb attacks, including the 2004 Australian embassy blast and a car bombing at the JW Marriot hotel in Jakarta a year earlier.
Police said he also had a role in the 2002 Bali bombings.
The Indonesian anti-terrorist unit, Detachment 88, caught a number of suspects during raids in Central Java at the weekend.
"After interrogating all suspects we know that Abu Dujana alias Yusron Mahmudi is the chief of the military wing of JI," National Police spokesman Sisno Adiwinoto told a news conference.
The spokesman said investigations had shown that 37-year-old Dujana went by a number of names, but DNA tests and fingerprints proved the man they held was the wanted suspect.
He was shot in the thigh during his capture Saturday, police said.

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