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Wed, 10/29/2008 - 18:02
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TERROR SUSPECT DIES OF KIDNEY FAILURE, POLICE SAY

Jakarta, Oct 29 (ANTARA) - Budiman, one of five terror suspects arrested by police in the Kelapa gading area, North Jakarta last October 21, died of kidney failure at the Kramat Jati Police Hospital on Wednesday morning, National Police spokesman Insp.Gen. Abubakar Nataprawira said.
"Budiman underwent haemo-dialysis on Tuesday but at about 5 this morning he died because his kidneys failed to function," Abubakar said, adding that the former was placed at VIP room at the hospital to get optimal medical treatment.
Abubakar said that Budiman had been suffering from typhus and anemia when the police picked him up from Rawalumbu hospital in Bekasi recently.
"Following the arrest, he was sent to the Kramat Jati Police Hospital for further treatment and in a medical examination doctors found the kidney problem," Abubakar said.
Immediately after his arrest, Budiman had to be taken to the hospital so that police had had no chance to begin interrogating him, he said.
Meanwhile, spokesman of the Muslim Defense Lawyers' Team , Achmad Michdan, said that to establish the cause of Budiman's death, his body was sent to the Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital for an autopsy.
"Budiman's family and the police investigation team had agreed that an autopsy should be conducted to prevent misleading speculations about the circumstances of his death," Michdan said.
Budiman and the other four terror suspects, identified as Rusli Mardani alias Wahyu Ramadhan alias Uci alias Farid Alias Zulfikar, Nurhasani alias Hassan, Iman Basori alias Basar, and Muntasir, were arrested in the Kelapa Gading area, North Jakarta, on Tuesday, October 21, 2008.
After the arrests, National Police Headquarters spokesman Brig Gen Sulistyo Ishak said the five men had planned to blow up a gasoline depot in Plumpang, North Jakarta.
"One of their objectives was to blow up the Plumpang gasoline depot but their other objectives are still under investigation," Brig Gen Sulistyo Ishak said.
He said with the arrest of the five terror suspects, their plan to attack the Plumpang gasoline depot was foiled.
"We are grateful because their arrest has foiled their plan to carry out terrorist acts in the country," Sulistyo said.
At the places where the suspects had stayed, the police also seized a 9 mm caliber revolver, a magazine, 27 rounds of 9mm ammunition, a firearm, 257.5 grams of TMP, and a bomb assembling manual.


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