July 1, 2019 8:41 PM

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Indonesia arrests leader of Al Qaeda-linked extremist network

<span style="color: #222222;">In Indonesia, police have arrested Para Wijayanto, the leader of Al Qaeda-linked terrorist network Jemaah Islamiah, which carried out the 2002 Bali bombings that killed more than 200 people. Police said, Wijayanto was detained by counter-terrorism squad with his wife on Saturday at a hotel in Bekasi, a city on the outskirts of  Jakarta.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' Police said, Wijayanto was a long-time leader of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), one of Indonesia's oldest terrorist groups, which was behind a series of deadly attacks in the world's largest Muslim-majority nation. Wijayanto was also suspected in sending at least six batches of Indonesians abroad to fight in Syria and provided support to militants in the terrorism hot-spot of Poso on Sulawesi island.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' Al-Qaeda-linked JI was founded by a handful of exiled Indonesian militants in Malaysia in the 1980s and grew to include cells across Southeast Asia.</span><br />

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