Woman had 4 pounds of explosives at Indonesia train stationAn Indonesian woman was arrested Tuesday with 4 pounds of TNT at a train station in East Java province, a senior police detective said, and authorities were trying to determine if she had links to terrorism.
The 55-year-old suspect was being questioned at police headquarters in Surabaya, the country's second largest city, after being detained at the Sidoarjo train station, said Col. Amhar Azeth. "She was behaving suspiciously so police searched her," he said. "They found 2 kilograms of TNT." It was not yet clear if the explosives were intended for terrorist activities, he said.
The al-Qaeda-linked militant group Jemaah Islamiyah has been blamed for a series of attacks in the world's most populous Muslim nation since 2002, killing more than 240 people, many of them foreign tourists. All of the attacks have occurred between August and October, a period President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono described last year as the "
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