Indonesian authorities detain 17 nationals returning from Syria

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http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/9/256638/World/International/Indonesian-authorities-detain--nationals-returning.aspx'>Ahram/Reuters

Jan 22 2017

Indonesian authorities have detained 17 nationals returning from Syria, including children, suspected of being involved in radical activity, officials told Reuters on Sunday.

Immigration office spokesman Agung Sampurno said the people, including a two year-old girl and a three year-old boy, were arrested at Soekarno-Hatta airport upon disembarking an Istanbul-Jakarta Turkish Airline flight on Saturday.

They have been handed over to the police's anti-terrorism unit for questioning, Sampurno said.

"They are currently still under an interrogation process. If we find any relation to crime on terrorism, we will continue the investigation. If not, they will be handed over to their families," the chief of Densus 88, police's anti-terrorism unit, Eddy Hartono told Reuters.

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Germany arrests 'accomplice' of Austrian terror suspect
AFP , Sunday 22 Jan 2017

German police said Sunday they have arrested a man accused of having ties to a suspected Islamic extremist captured in Austria and thought to have been plotting an attack.

A spokesman for state police in North Rhine-Westphalia said the man, 21, was taken into custody on Saturday in the western city of Neuss on a warrant for "planning a serious crime targeting the state".

A spokesman for the Austrian interior ministry, Karl-Heinz Grundboeck, confirmed that the arrest "is linked" to that of a 17-year-old man -- not 18 as previously indicated -- in Vienna on Friday evening.

"Investigations are continuing," Grundboeck told AFP.

 

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Meanwhile In I Hate THE JEWS land

Hamas Releases Islamic State Loyalists From Detention
Ali Waked
22 Jan 2017

Hamas has released 13 Islamic State loyalists from detention after they were arrested three months ago as part of the movement’s attempts to reconcile with Egyptian authorities by cracking down on radical Islamists in the Strip, a top jihadi operative in Gaza told Breitbart Jerusalem.

The unannounced release included jihadists who tried to resist arrest by firing on Hamas troops, as well as others who were arrested while firing rockets at Israel, the operative said.

Another freed detainee was Ahmad Taleb, a jihadi militant who was arrested wearing an explosive belt en route to join IS ranks in Sinai, the operative said.

The source said that the release of the detainees resulted from an agreement between Hamas and Welayat Sinai, IS’ Egyptian affiliate. As part of the agreement, Welayat Sinai facilitated the smuggling of goods through cross-border tunnels connecting Sinai and the Gaza Strip, a move that had been delayed for months after Hamas refused to allow wounded IS fighters into the Strip for medical care.

 

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