JAKARTA (AFP): Indonesian police said on Thursday they were distributing more than 200,000 leaflets bearing the pictures of nine men wanted for involvement in several terrorist attacks.
Insp. Gen. Paiman, the national police spokesman, said police had started delivering at least 240,000 leaflets to police headquarters across the country.
"(Local police) in turn will further duplicate them and disseminate them to their subdistrict police posts," he told AFP.
Police on Thursday air-dropped about 10,000 leaflets over Jakarta, especially in its outskirts, he said.
Featured on the leaflets were fugitive Malaysian bombmaker Azahari Husin and compatriot Noordin Mohammad Top, the main suspects in the Sept. 9 bombing at the Australian embassy which killed nine people.
Police said earlier that they had tracked the pair to rented accommodation on the outskirts of the capital before the embassy attack but the suspects fled shortly before police arrived.
Azahari and Noordin are also wanted for the 2002 Bali bombings in which 202 were killed, and for last year's Jakarta Marriott hotel bombing which killed 12.
Police have announced a one billion rupiah reward (US$109,000) for anyone who can provide information leading to the arrest of Noordin and Azahari.
Each of the seven others carries a 500-million rupiah bounty on their heads. Police said they are wanted for involvement in one or more bombings.
Paiman also said a man arrested Wednesday night was not Noordin as earlier suspected.
"Last night we apprehended a man but we found he is not one of the persons we are looking for. He has been released," the police spokesman said. (**) (Source: The Jakarta Post)
