Indonesia probes email threatening further attacks

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Source: Reuters

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police are investigating an email sent to a local website claiming to be from fugitive Islamic militant Noordin Mohammad Top and threatening to carry out more attacks.

Top is the suspected mastermind behind last month's twin suicide bomb attacks on Jakarta's JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels, killing nine people and injuring 53.

Police initially thought they had killed Top during raids last weekend in Central Java, but forensic tests later identified the body as that of a suspected accomplice.

Police chief Bambang Hendarso Danuri said on Friday authorities were investigating the email sent to local website Bagustv.com which claimed that the militant had been at the scene of Friday's raid in Temanggung, Central Java, but had escaped.



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