Tito suspects JAD terror group behind N. Sumatra police post attacks

National Police chief Gen. Tito Karnavian has said the two perpetrators of the North Sumatra Police checkpoint post attacks on Sunday were connected with the terrorist group Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), also suspected to be behind the recent Kampung Melayu bus terminal attacks.

The two attackers, identified only as SP and AR, snuck into a checkpoint post and stabbed to death a resting police officer and wounded another officer. The commotion and his cries for help attracted the attention of several mobile brigade (Brimob) personnel, who then chased the terrorists, shooting AR dead and wounding SP.

Tito said the police had predicted that there would be attacks of some kind in North Sumatra thanks to information obtained from the interrogation of three suspects arrested recently. The police have long been marked as the group’s ultimate enemy as they are deemed to be standing in the way of the group realizing their goal, he added.

 “We had predicted that these terrorists were going to plan an attack due to information from their colleagues who were arrested earlier,” he said in Jakarta on Sunday.

The police confiscated writing materials, banners, video recordings and printing plates with the ISIS logo on them during post-attack raids conducted at the attackers’ houses and a printing house located on Sisimangaraja St. in Medan, North Sumatra. (ecn/dic)

Source:
courtesy of THE JAKARTA POST

by Esther C. Natalia

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