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Death row Bali bomber planned attack online
A man on death row for the 2002 Bali bombings communicated with militants on the internet while in prison to organise another deadly attack on the Indonesian resort island last year, police said yesterday.
- Agencies
- Published: 00:00 August 24, 2006
Jakarta: A man on death row for the 2002 Bali bombings communicated with militants on the internet while in prison to organise another deadly attack on the Indonesian resort island last year, police said yesterday.
Imam Samudra used a laptop with a wireless connection smuggled to his prison cell in Bali to hook up to the internet and chat with co-conspirators, said the national police head of the cyber crime unit, Petrus Golose. "Imam Samudra ... directed the fund-raising for the second Bali bombing," Golose told reporters.
"The laptop allowed Imam Samudra to chat without restrictions in Ahlussunnah and CafeIslam chatrooms," he said referring to religious chatrooms. "This took place before the second Bali bombing."
Police have arrested two men accused of using computer technology to aid terrorists in Indonesia, including one who smuggled a laptop to Samudra, a police official said.
Agung Prabowo was accused of helping create a website last year that suggested ways to assassinate foreigners in the capital Jakarta, Golose said.
Prabowo and Agung Setyadi, who is accused of smuggling the computer to Samudra, were arrested last week in separate raids in Semarang, central Java province, Golose said, but neither has been formally charged.
Setyadi, a 31-year-old information technology lecturer, smuggled the computer to Samudra in July 2005 with the help of a warden at his jail on Bali island, Golose said.
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