Terror group targeted Java power plant
JAKARTA, April 17 (UPI) -- Asian militant group Jemaah Islamiyah last year planned to bomb an Indonesian power plant that was financed by foreign companies, security sources said.
However, the group, which is linked to al-Qaida, did not carry out the plan because it could not make bombs powerful enough to disable the plant, a source in the Indonesian security authorities said.
The Paiton coal thermal power plant, which was built by Japanese, U.S. and British companies, provides electricity to most parts of the Indonesian island of Java.
The source said the plan of attack was drawn up early last year by Noordin Mohammed Top, a JI leader who masterminded the October 2005 suicide bombings on Bali that killed 20 people, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported Monday.
Two JI members who are currently on trial for harboring Noordin told local prosecutors that they were ordered to check whether citizens of the United States and its allies worked at the plant.
However, the group, which is linked to al-Qaida, did not carry out the plan because it could not make bombs powerful enough to disable the plant, a source in the Indonesian security authorities said.
The Paiton coal thermal power plant, which was built by Japanese, U.S. and British companies, provides electricity to most parts of the Indonesian island of Java.
The source said the plan of attack was drawn up early last year by Noordin Mohammed Top, a JI leader who masterminded the October 2005 suicide bombings on Bali that killed 20 people, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported Monday.
Two JI members who are currently on trial for harboring Noordin told local prosecutors that they were ordered to check whether citizens of the United States and its allies worked at the plant.
posted by Marko at 4/17/2006 05:40:00 AM
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