An Indonesian man said he financed bombings that killed 22 people in Manila in December 2000 with money from an Islamic militant group thought linked to Osama bin Laden's terror network. In the sworn statements, Fathur Rohman Al-Ghozi, 31, said he joined Jemaah Islamiyah while he was a student in Lahore, Pakistan in 1990-1995. Al-Ghozi said his role with Jemaah Islamiyah was as an "errand boy, messenger or liaison officer." He said he was sent to Malaysia to meet the local leader of the group, Fais Bin Abu Bakar Bafana. Al-Ghozi said one of his "contacts," identified only as Muklis, brought him to Camp Abubakar, headquarters of the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front, where he spent a month in 1996 studying the Filipino language and weapons training. |