Indonesia names 'mastermind' of Jakarta attacks

January 16, 2016 09:55

Police have named an Indonesian, Bahrun Naim, as the mastermind of Thursday's deadly attack in Jakarta's main business district after it arrested three men in a pre-dawn raid.The arrests on Friday came less than 24 hours after the shooting and bombing rampage, the first such attack in the world's most populous Muslim nation since 2009, which killed seven people.

Five of the dead were the attackers themselves. Indonesia moves against the Islamic StatePolice said Naim, who spent one year in jail for illegal possession of weapons in 2011, funded the attack.

He is now believed to be in Syria fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

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