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    September 26, 2011

Indonesian Police Link Church, Mosque Bombings

   VOA News
   A policeman stands guard as residents watch the site of an explosion in
   front of a church in Solo, Central Java September 25, 2011. An
   explosion caused by a suspected suicide bomber outside a church in the
   Indonesian city of Solo killed one person on Sund
   Photo: Reuters
   A policeman stands guard as residents watch the site of an explosion in
   front of a church in Solo, Central Java September 25, 2011.

   Indonesian authorities suspect a suicide bomber who attacked a church
   on Sunday may have been involved in a previous bombing at a mosque in
   April.
   Police Monday were awaiting the results of DNA testing on the remains
   of the bomber, who injured 27 people, many critically, at a church in
   Central Java province. But they say he may be Achmed Yosepa Hayat, who
   is wanted for his role in a suicide attack that wounded 30 people at a
   mosque in Cirebon.
   President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced the suspicions during an
   address to the nation late Sunday.
   "I, on behalf of the government and the state strongly condemned this
   terror act, this extraordinary crime which was indiscriminate that
   happened again in our country," he said.
   Yudhoyono strongly condemned the attack and said Indonesia still is
   threatened by extremism.
   Sunday's attack took place in Solo, the hometown of radical Muslim
   cleric Abu Bakar Bashir who is considered the spiritual leader behind
   the regional terror network Jemaah Islamiyah. It came as hundreds of
   worshippers were leaving a Protestant church at the end of Sunday
   services.
   The April attack struck at a mosque attached to a police station in
   Cirebon, about 300 kilometers east of Jakarta. Two main suspects in
   that bombing were killed by police near Solo in May.

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