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Southeast Asia
Wan Min, the money man...
2002-12-12
Laksamana.Net
The connection between the Bali bombers and Malaysia is becoming more evident. According to the testimony of one suspect, Ali Gufron alias Mukhlas, a Malaysian man named Wan Min Wan Mat supplied funds amounting to around $30.000 to finance the October 12 Bali bombings.
We knew that. Got anything more?
This, according to police, is a significant development. “If I am not mistaken, Wan Min is the Jemaah Islamiyah treasurer,” said chief police investigator for the Bali bombing, Maj. Gen. I Made Mangku Pastika.
Oooh. That's a nice thing to know...
A team is expected to leave for Malaysia soon to cross check the statements given by Gufron.
I'll bet they are...
The story of the Malaysian connection began in February 1985, when Abu Bakar Baasyir and the late Abdullah Sungkar, the founder of the Central Java-based Ngruki Islamic boarding school, fled to Malaysia to avoid arrest for their political activities against the Suharto regime. The group, later popularly known as the Ngruki exiles, consisted of Abdullah Sungkar, Abu Bakar Baasyir [Bashir], Fikiruddin,
Abu Jibril alias Fikiruddin Muqti
He is also known as Mohamad Iqbal bin Abdul Rahman. He was arrested by Malaysian police under the country's Internal Security Act. Jibril was seen in a video recruiting Muslim volunteers who were to be sent to Maluku. According to Southeast Asian intelligence reports, Jibril was a key member of the Al Qaeda network. Jibril is the brother of Irfan S. Awwas, an activist with the Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia which is led by Abu Bakar Ba'asyir.
Agus Sunarto, Ahmad Fallah, Rusli Aryus, Mubin Bustami, Fajar Sidiq and Agung Riyadi. After obtaining refuge in Malaysia, in August 1985 the Ngruki group held a series of meetings at which they decided they would seek funds for the movement by asking “jemaah members” in Solo to recruit fellow members to work in designated companies in Malaysia and turn over 20% of their salaries to the jemaah.
Nice racket, huh? If anybody feels like kicking in 20% of their salary to me, drop me an e-mail. I promise to use the money for women and beer to fight for a, ummmm... non-Islamic state.
Thus, the nucleus of the secret society was set in motion. Abdullah Sungkar, the leading figure of this network, started to identify a number of sympathetic Malaysian suckers businessmen willing to take on Indonesian gunnies workers and help the effort to help the holy men avoid having to get jobs establish an Islamic state. The testimony of Gufron concerning the involvement of Wan Min in supplying funds for the Bali bombing is believed to provide hope of uncovering the involvement of Malaysian suckers marks businessmen, and the links with their counterparts in Indonesia.
Guess you have to sweep up the useful idiots as well...
Wan Min Wan Mat has been picked up in Malaysia, and, according to The Straits Times, admitted that he had been instructed by Hambali to hand over the money to Mukhlas, another key JI operative. Wan Min was told that the money was to fund “an important project” in Indonesia, but he was not told what that project was.
"No! I mean, really! I had no idea...!"
“Only after a meeting in Solo, Indonesia, in the middle of the year did the purpose of the funds become clear, he told security officials,” the report states. During his interrogation, Wan Min also made clear that Hambali was still the most important member of the JI network in the region.
Wonder where Riduan might be these days?
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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