Topic: Southeast Asia

Manila says arrested hackers funded by Saudi group

MANILA/BOSTON (Reuters) - Philippine police and the FBI have arrested four people over a hacking operation that targeted customers of U.S. telecommunications giant AT&T to funnel money to a Saudi-based militant group.Those arrested on Wednesday in Manila were paid by the same ...

Philippines say arrested hackers funded by Saudi group

MANILA/BOSTON (Reuters) - Philippine police and the FBI have arrested four people that Manila said were paid by a militant Saudi Arabian-based group to hack into U.S. telecom AT&T's system, but the company said it was neither targeted nor breached.The Philippines' Criminal ...
Indonesia's counter-terrorism police on Saturday arrested five people in connection with a suicide bombing of a mosque in April, a spokesman said.Heru Komarudin, a 31-year-old man, was arrested by Detatchment 88, an elite counter-terrorism police unit, at a market in central Jakarta ...

Indonesia arrests key suspect in suicide bomb attacks

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia authorities said on Sunday they had captured one of their four most-wanted militants in connection with two suicide-bomb attacks this year that rekindled fears of religion-related violence in the world's largest Muslim country.The suspect, identified as Beni Asri, ...

Indonesia suicide bomber 'most wanted militant'

A man already on Indonesia's most wanted list in connection with a suicide attack five months ago was the bomber who blew himself up in a packed church on Sunday, according to police.Ahmad Yosepa Hayat, 31 was sitting among the Bethel Injil ...

Suicide bomber attacks packed Indonesian church

A suicide bomber attacked a packed Indonesian church on Sunday wounding at least 27 people, some critically, and sending terrified worshippers rushing out into the streets in panic.The morning bombing in the city of Solo, in Central Java, was the latest in ...

Suicide bomber attacks church in Indonesia

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A suspected suicide bomber attacked a church on Indonesia's Java island on Sunday, killing himself and one other person, a police officer and a government minister said.Seventeen people were wounded in the explosion outside a Protestant church just after ...

Indonesia seeks 12 years for Islamist extremist

Indonesian prosecutors on Thursday sought 12 years in jail for Abu Tholut, seen as one of the most dangerous Islamist extremists in the mainly Muslim country.Tholut, 49, was found guilty of playing a key role in the formation of a militant training ...
Bomb alerts forced two Pakistan International Airlines planes Wednesday to land at Istanbul's Ataturk airport and in Kuala Lumpur, but no bombs were found, officials and news agency reports said.Security officials in Istanbul with sniffer dogs searched the Boeing 777-300EA, which had ...
Indonesia has killed or captured most of the militants responsible for the 2002 Bali bombings, but it now faces new threats from second-generation jihadists inspired by the 9/11 attacks.Even before the strikes on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001, Southeast ...
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