All last week, the police counterterrorism unit, better known as Detachment 88, rounded up a few members of a terrorist network plotting a suicide bombing at the State Palace. They were prepping a woman to be a 'bride' or suicide bomber. The time they had chosen was the morning of Sunday, December 11, last week, during the changing of the guard ritual of the presidential security force at the State Palace.

They are members of the Jemaah Ansharut Dau