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Southeast Asia
Muslim activist arrested in East Java for JI links
2004-01-10
Indonesian police arrested a Muslim activist Friday and were questioning him over possible ties to two key Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists wanted for their suspected roles in the Bali and J.W. Marriott bombings, an official said. The man, identified as Adi Sunarya, was arrested near his house in the East Java capital of Surabaya, said Brig. Gen. Pranowo Dahlan. Pranowo wouldn’t give details of Sunarya’s suspected connections to Azahari bin Husin and Noordin Mohammed Top, two of Southeast Asia’s most wanted terrorists. Both men are believed to have played roles in the October 2002 Bali nightclub bombings, which killed 202 people, and the Aug. 5 bombing of the J.W. Marriott hotel, which killed 12. Sunarya ``is now being interrogated,’’ said Pranowo, head of the police anti-terror department. ``The questioning is focusing on his possible link with Dr. Azahari and Noordin,’’ he said. He added, however, that ``it is too early to say that he is a member’’ of Jemaah Islamiyah - the Al-Qaeda-linked terror group blamed for the Bali and Marriott bombings. He also declined to say where Sunarya, an activist with a Surabaya mosque, was being detained.
Posted by:Dan Darling

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