The Jakarta Post, Poso, Central Sulawesi, Sat November 03 2012,
The police operation targeted a group of suspected terrorists in Poso, Central Sulawesi, on Saturday left one people killed and 14 others arrested for allegedly involved in a series of violence and attacks in the province.
Over the past five days, the police operation in the area had claimed two lives. Twenty people have been detained.
Central Sulawesi Police Chief Brig. Gen. Dewa Parsana said that Abdul Halid, 24, who was killed in a gunfire with the National Police's Detachment 88 Antiterror Squad on Saturday morning, was considered a "leader" among his group.
Dewa said that Yasin, who was arrested in the same police operation, was known as a respectable Islamic leader whose role was distributing radical Islamic lessons to Poso's Muslims.
"The killing of Halid and the arrest of Yasin have resulted in a sporadic violence of their diehard supporters. When we attempted to calm them down, they even attacked us by throwing stones and explosives," Dewa said in the Poso Police office.
Their supporters ran amok after their demand to have Halid's corpse, which was taken to Palu, could not be immediately fulfilled by the police. It took at least five hours for the police to return Halid’s body from Palu to Poso.
The "solidarity" of the extremists had led to 13 being arrested by the police on Saturday afternoon.
za 3 nov 2012 - 22:56