Terrorists in a Time Warp

Police say a Lampung gas-station robbery is actually the work of an Islamic nationalist group last heard of in the 1940s.

April 9, 2002

Police Gen. Dai Bachtiar raised the specter of homegrown terrorism on April 1 after attending a seminar on the antiterrorism bill in Jakarta. He said officers "arrested a number of Darul Islam activists" who had been rounded up after holding up a gas station at Kotabumi, North Lampung.

Of the nine accused, Lampung police arrested five, while their colleagues at the Bandung Police picked up the other four in West Java. Traditional

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