Robbers armed with
high-powered weapons escaping from the CIMB bank in Medan in August 2010.
Terrorists are increasingly relying on robbing banks and money changers and
hacking bank accounts online to fund their activities
Men killed or captured linked to other terror groups and series
of high-profile crimes
One of the terrorist suspects shot dead in a series of raids
beginning last Thursday night was a man who fled an explosion at an abandoned
orphanage in the capital's outskirts last September.
The 34-year-old Makmur, otherwise known as Bram, was also
one of three fugitives from the deadly CIMB bank robbery in Medan, North
Sumatra, in August 2010. The incident saw one policeman and two guards killed
as terrorists targeted it as a source of funds for a paramilitary camp in
neighbouring Aceh.
"(Makmur) is suspected of running a cell that was
involved in robbing a bank in North Sumatra. He is also linked to cells in
Jakarta and Medan," said a police spokesman, Brigadier-General Boy Rafli
Amar, yesterday.
As officials piece together the details emerging from one of
their biggest terror raids in months, the links between the newly caught men
and those already incarcerated show an intertwined network of terror groups
spanning a vast swathe of the Indonesian archipelago - Sumatra, Java and
Sulawesi islands. Straits Time PHOTO: AFP
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