JAKARTA: Indonesian police arrested one of the country's most-wanted militants Friday, accusing him of plotting high-profile assassinations and bloody attacks on foreigners at luxury hotels in the capital. Abu Tholut was captured without a fight during a pre-dawn raid on a home in Central Java province, said Lt. Col. Djihartono, a police spokesman, adding a handgun and several rounds of ammunition were also seized. The 42-year-old suspect was to be flown to Jakarta later Friday, he said. Tholut, also known as Mustofa, became one of the country's most wanted fugitives after master bombmakers Noordin M. Top and Dulmatin were gunned down earlier this year in a series of police raids.He was convicted for involvement in a 2001 bomb blast at a shopping plaza in central Jakarta that wounded six, but released five years later for good behavior. Like dozens of Indonesia's “rehabilitated” terrorists, it appears he quickly returned to his old ways. He allegedly helped set up a militant training camp for the homegrown terror cell, Jamaah Anshorut Tauhid, that was uncovered by police in westernmost Aceh province in February and helped recruit members and raise money, officials have said. “Abu Tholut was deeply involved in terrorist training in Aceh and armed robberies in North Sumatra province,” national police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar told reporters Friday, citing “confessions by suspected militants arrested earlier.”
