Jakarta grenade suspect arrested in Maluku<\/p>\n
Damar Harsanto, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
Police managed to arrest a suspect in last month's grenade attack
\nnear a U.S. Embassy residence on Jl. Teluk Betung, Central
\nJakarta, early on Thursday morning in Toleho, Seram island,
\nMaluku.<\/p>\n
\"We've captured the suspect, named Muhammad Thayib, who has
\nbeen at large following the grenade attack on Jl. Teluk Betung,
\nthanks to the help of the Maluku Police,\" Jakarta Police chief
\nInsp. Gen. Makbul Padmanagara told reporters on Friday.<\/p>\n
Makbul said Thayib was apprehended after police detectives had
\nbeen tracing the suspect's whereabouts for 20 days. Thayib was
\nlater sent to Jakarta.<\/p>\n
Previously, National Police chief Gen. Da'i Bachtiar had said
\nthe grenade was meant to be thrown at the unoccupied U.S. Embassy
\nproperty, but later Makbul contradicted Da'i's statement,
\nclaiming that the motive behind the grenade attack was a loan
\ndispute.<\/p>\n
Police since then have been maintaining that the grenade,
\nwhich exploded less than one kilometer from the Hotel Indonesia
\ntraffic circle and the residence of the U.S. Ambassador, was
\naimed at another house belong to a businessman named Juanda, but
\nwent off prematurely.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the suspect Thayib appeared to confirm the police's
\nversion that the target of the attack was Juanda's house, not the
\nU.S. property.<\/p>\n
\"The target was No. 7, not No. 8 (the U.S. property). And, it
\nwas all about a loan dispute,\" Thayib told journalists prior to
\npolice questioning on Friday.<\/p>\n
Thayib is one of four assailants traveling in a Kijang van who
\nallegedly planned to throw the grenade at one of the buildings on
\nthe street, but it prematurely exploded killing one of them,
\nAbdul Azis Jenis, 30, and slightly injuring another, Yusuf, 28,
\nthe driver.<\/p>\n
Thayib and Ali managed to flee from the scene using a passing
\nbajaj (three-wheeled taxi), while Yusuf was captured by local
\nresidents.<\/p>\n
Shortly after the blast, the police raided Yusuf's rented
\nhouse in Gunung Putri, Bogor, near the southern outskirts of
\nJakarta, which was used as the assailants' hideout, and
\nconfiscated two tubes of TNT, 19 FN bullets, and one blank round.<\/p>\n
Police also arrested two other suspects, Hani, 28, and Riyan,
\n23, who lived in a house near Yusuf's, but another suspect,
\nHarun, managed to escape out the back door.<\/p>",
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