ABU Bakar Ba’asyir was not getting out of the Kijang automobile he was riding in. This 72-year-old man refused when the police asked him to get out of the vehicle. In front of the precinct office of the Banjar Metropolitan Police Department, West Java, on Monday morning last week, tens of police officers had blocked the way of the entourage which was headed out of Bandung.

In addition Ba’asyir, also in the car was his wife, Aisyah binti Abdu