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Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Police are currently still conducting a search for bombs believed to have been assembled by top terrorist Dulmatin and his group before he was killed in a shootout last Tuesday.

The police`s belief was based on the fact that bomb detonating remote controls were found in a safe house the militants had stayed in Pamulang, Tangerang, on Jakarta`s western outskirts, the National Police`s chief detective, Commissioner General Ito Sumardi said here Thursday.

"We are now trying to find out where the explosives or bombs are being kept because we have found their remote detonating controls," he said.

He said the police would continue to search for the explosives or bombs made by Dulmatin`s group because they were believed capable of causing huge explosions.

Dulmatin, who was killed in a raid in Pamulang on Tuesday, and Ali Imran, who was sentenced to life, as well as Dr Azahari (killed in Batu, East Java, in 2005) had assembled the bombs that went off at two crowded night-spots in Bali in 2002 leaving 202 people dead and hundreds of others wounded.

Regarding the firearms the group possessed, Ito said the police had already confiscated seven, including a revolver, an FN pistol, AK47 and M16 rifles.

"It is not impossible that the number of weapons still in their possession is bigger. Those arrested would not tell about them," he said.

Ito said the weapons are believed to come from abroad and smuggled into the country in the form of parts.

"It is not that the assembling could be done here, regardless of where they come from. This is also what we are now seeking to know. Where do the weapons come from," he said.

He said the police are now also investigating the origin of around 7,000 rounds of ammunition already seized.

Some of the bullets are from abroad, he said. "Many of them seem to have been old and kept for a long time under the ground. It is not impossible that they are leftovers from armed conflicts in Aceh. They can come from anywhere," he said.

Ito said the Dulmatin group that trained in Aceh does not have special trainers but the trainers are from among them.

"The training is done in the form of experience sharing. It is not that some of them used to be volunteers receiving military training in the Philippines and Afghanistan," he said.

On funds Ito said he could not as yet explain about them and the police would cooperate with the Financial Transaction Analysis and Reporting Center (PPATK) with regard to them.

The police have confiscated cash money in rupiah and foreign denominations from the raid location in Pamulang, Banten province.

National police chief General Bambang Hendarso Danuri meanwhile confirmed that the police had conducted a raid in Solo, Central Java on Wednesday.

"I will explain about it later," he said on the sidelines of the rollcall.

Commissioner General Ito said the raid was done at an Islamic boarding school in Baki, Batuanyar and the police had arrested one suspected to be a terrorist.

The police counter-terrorism unit Densus 88 have recently conducted anti-terrorism operations in Aceh, Jakarta, West Java and Pamulang, Banten.

One of the most wanted terrorists, Dulmatin, was killed during the operations in Pamulang.  (*)

Editor: B Kunto Wibisono

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