Kompas.com reported Haiti as claiming that the money was sent by attack mastermind Naim to two people in Central Java in November 2015, but he refused to divulge their names.
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They said the five attackers had been killed either in the initial bombings or later firefight. Traffic was flowing normally on Friday morning.
Earlier Friday, police arrested three men at dawn in their homes in Depok on the outskirts of Jakarta, and more raids were being conducted in Java, Kalimantan and Sulawesi provinces based on evidence found at the scene, national police spokesman Maj.
He said the operations were funded through Bahrun Naim, an Indonesian who was arrested in 2011 and spent one year in jail for illegal possession of weapons before going to Syria to fight alongside the group.
Indonesian police stand near a boarded up police box that was hit during yesterday’s gun and bomb attack in central Jakarta January 15, 2016. Gen. Anton Charliyan said. “He hopes the perpetrators of today’s attacks will be swiftly brought to justice”.
Indonesia remains on high alert following an attack by a Daesh-linked group in the capital’s Sarinah mall complex that left seven people dead, five of them the attackers.
Australian Attorney-General George Brandis, who was in Jakarta recently to bolster security coordination, told the Australian newspaper he had “no doubt” Islamic State was seeking to establish a “distant caliphate” in Indonesia.
The civilians – an Indonesian and a man of dual Canadian-Algerian nationality – were killed along with the attackers.
Price says that the nation’s thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of the victims.
They laid flowers and other offerings outside the Starbucks cafe that was at the center of the attack.
“So we think… their plan was to attack people and follow it up with a larger explosion when more people gathered. We are united and we are not afraid”. However, Aamaq, a news agency affiliated with the Islamic State group, quoted an unidentified source as saying the militant group carried out the attack. The message was circulated by ISIS supporters on Twitter late Thursday.
A US-led coalition has also been hammering the group’s oil infrastructure, including by blowing up hundreds of trucks used to ferry illicit crude oil around Syria, and this week bombed a financial facility in the Iraqi city of Mosul that USA officials said held millions of dollars in cash. It said they wore suicide belts and carried light weaponry.
The statement could not be independently verified by The Associated Press, though it resembled previous claims made by the group.
“The IS cell in southeast Asia includes Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and other countries.” said Jakarta Police Chief Tito Karnavian”.
Police declared the attack over after a fierce firefight nearby and later announced there were no more assailants on the loose.
He said the two gunmen ran away with police chasing them.
Angele Samura, the security adviser for the Netherlands Embassy in Jakarta, said a Dutch national underwent surgery after being “severely injured”. It had no update on his condition Thursday afternoon.
Two suicide bombers blew themselves up before the police post, critically injuring 4 policemen. In his cable, His Highness the Amir wished a speedy recovery for those wounded in the attack and underscored Kuwait’s condemnation of these terrorist acts that are unrefl ective of the image of Islam.
Messages of solidarity, courage and condolonces were also shared by Indonesians.
Through six years without a major attack, Indonesia’s confidence had been growing: It was right on top of any threat from Islamic militants.
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In either case, this was the first such attack in Jakarta since 2009, when militants bombed two Western hotels.
