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Word: pekanbaru (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2002-2002
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...seconds to foil police scanning. The latest technology, however, requires only a few seconds to trace a call, and on Nov. 21 police tracked down Samudra and nabbed two of his bodyguards. They said their boss planned to board a bus about to leave on a ferry to Pekanbaru, on the island of Sumatra. Two policemen arrested Samudra. Indonesian police say he later confessed to being the chief planner of the Bali bombings and to a string of unsolved crimes. Samudra, according to police sources, said one of the bombs that exploded in Kuta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Bali Plot | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...police closed in, Samudra made his second mistake. Authorities nabbed two of his bodyguards, who revealed that their boss planned to board a bus that was to cross by ferry boat from Java's Sundra Strait to the town of Pekanbaru on the island of Sumatra. Samudra's name wasn't on the passenger list at the Kurnia bus company's office for the Nov. 21, 5:30 p.m. departure. But another name immediately jumped out at the police: Arema. It was a nickname commonly used by those from the East Java town of Malang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Will They Strike Next? | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

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