GAM behind JSX bombing: Police<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Preliminary police investigations into the
\nbombing of the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSX) building have
\nsuggested the involvement of the separatist Free Aceh Movement
\n(GAM), an officer said.<\/p>\n
\"For example, the cash used by the bombers is linked to
\nmarijuana dealers from Aceh. I believe that the money they got
\nfrom selling marijuana has been used to buy firearms,\" National
\nPolice spokesman Brig. Gen. Dadang Garnida was quoted by Antara
\nas saying on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Dadang also said that police had found GAM flags at the
\nresidences of some of the suspects.<\/p>\n
The officer said that GAM had deliberately launched the bomb
\nattack in Jakarta as part of its efforts to create instability,
\ntopple the government and shift the world's attention from Aceh
\nto the capital.<\/p>\n
Dadang was speaking to reporters while accompanying National
\nPolice chief Gen. Surojo Bimantoro during a visit to the Antara
\nstate news agency's head office in Central Jakarta.<\/p>\n
His statement was the first to explicitly implicate GAM in the
\nSept. 13 bombing at the JSX building which killed at least 11
\npeople, injured dozens, and damaged some 200 vehicles.<\/p>\n
The police had earlier announced that most of the suspects
\noriginated from the strife-torn province of Aceh, including two
\nmembers of the military.<\/p>\n
During the visit, Bimantoro denied that the police had
\narbitrarily arrested the suspects in the bombing case without any
\nprima facie evidence.<\/p>\n
However, Bimantoro admitted that the announcement of the
\narrests were \"too sudden\".<\/p>\n
The Indonesian Legal Aid and Human Rights Association (PBHI)
\nhad earlier said on Monday that the police had no prima facie
\nevidence when they arrested the suspects and that they suspected
\nthe police were trying to frame the suspects using fabricated
\nevidence.<\/p>\n
Dadang said that the police would announce the findings of
\ntheir ongoing investigation of the suspects next week.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, PBHI representatives met the suspects at Jakarta
\nPolice headquarters under a heavy escort of armed police
\nofficers. (jaw)<\/p>",
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