Terror suspects die in hail of police bullets

Five men linked to a terrorist cell have been shot in Indonesia.
The suspected terrorists were killed after police launched series of anti-terror operations throughout the country..

Police have said the men may have been planning to launch a terror attack over the next few weeks. One was identified as Mukhlis, who was shot as he was alighting from a taxi.
He had trained with Islamic separatists in the Philippines. Mukhlis was with two other terror suspects who were also shot.
Another two were killed in a later raid on a suspected hideout in the West Java city of Cikampek, about 80 kilometres from Jakarta.
One of the dead has been named as Saptono, who was involved in a suicide car bomb attack that killed ten people outside the Australian embassy in 2004.

All of the men were linked to a previous operation in February, when police raided a militant training camp in Aceh province.Those just eliminated were linked to the terrorist training facility in Aceh. (Indonesia News.net)