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Suspected terrorist arrested in Purworejo

The National Police’s Densus 88 counterterrorism unit and local police on Tuesday morning arrested Arif Suharto, 42, of Pangenrejo, Purworejo, Central Java, for his alleged involvement in Noordin M

The Jakarta Post
Semarang
Wed, September 17, 2014

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Suspected terrorist arrested in Purworejo

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he National Police'€™s Densus 88 counterterrorism unitand local police on Tuesday morning arrested Arif Suharto, 42, of Pangenrejo,Purworejo, Central Java, for his alleged involvement in Noordin M. Top'€™sterrorist network.

Noordin was killed in a police raid on a house in Surakarta, Central Java, on Sept. 17, 2009.

 Central Java Police spokesperson Sr. Comr. Liliek Darmanto said in the provincial capital of Semarang on Tuesday that Arif had been working as a soybean milk vendor in his village.

 '€œDensus 88 confiscated a cell phone and a laptop from him,'€ said Liliek, adding that Arif had been flown to the National Police headquarters in Jakarta via Yogyakarta.

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