JAKARTA, Indonesia — An elite anti-terrorism squad arrested Indonesia's most-wanted man and two other suspects Wednesday after raiding their hide-out on the country's main island of Java, police and witnesses said. At least one person was killed and several weapons seized, including a bomb in a backpack.
Among those taken alive was Abdullah Sunata, the country's top terrorist suspect, said an investigator who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the case.
Sunata jumped to the top of the most-wanted list after allegedly setting up a network that was plotting a Mumbai-style attack in the world's most populous Muslim country and high-profile assassinations, including a plot to kill President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
At least 60 suspected members of the network have been arrested in recent months. Another 13 have been killed, prompting some critics to say valuable intelligence was being lost.
Several local television stations quoted unidentified sources as saying Sunata had been taken in, but Brig. Gen. Zaenuri Lubis, a spokesman for the national police, told TV One he could not immediately confirm that, because "frankly, I have not yet been able to contact those in the field".
Officers raided the suspects' rented home in Cungkrungan, a village in Central Java province, late Wednesday afternoon.
At least nine shots were fired, Jimo, a neighbor, told the AP. The area was cleared of residents while experts tried to detonate a bomb discovered inside a backpack, he and other witnesses said. At least one revolver also was seized.
