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| Southeast Asia |
| Men Resembling Suspects Arrested |
| 2002-11-05 |
| Police have arrested two men matching composite sketches of suspects in the Bali nightclub bombings that killed about 190 people, officials said Tuesday. National Police chief Dai Bachtiar said the two were arrested on Monday, one in Jakarta and the other in the North Sumatra capital of Medan. "Got a description of the suspect?" "Yeah. He was short, oriental, with black hair and kinda brownish skin." "Yusuf, go out and round up everybody who fits that description!" "Hokay, chief!" Jakarta Police chief Makbul Padmanegara was unwilling to name the man nabbed in the national capital, saying it was too early to link him to the bombings. âThereâs a resemblance, but itâs not yet clear if heâs the suspect. He was arrested yesterday afternoon in the Jakarta area,â Padmanegara was quoted as saying by detikcom online news service. Doesn't sound like a real solid nab, does it? The man arrested in Medan was identified as Zulfan (28). He was reportedly caught while trying to leave the country on a false passport. Police said the short-haired man, who had a round-trip ticket for Medan to Penang in Malaysia, was also carrying a false identity card. That sounds more typically Islamist... Zulfan told police he often moves from place to place, and had previously lived in Malaysia as a construction worker. I dunno... Islamists aren't real big on that manual labor thing. It's not very Islamic. That's why, back in Arabia, they hire people from... ummm... Indonesia to do that sort of thing... The arrests came after police said they had ascertained the names and hideouts of three Indonesian men suspected of responsibility for the October 12 bombings. The three have been described as âlow-level operativesâ who apparently planted the bombs. The controllers and their runners usually aren't involved in the actual boom itself. They hire cannon fodder for that, if they can't sweet-talk 'em into doing it for free... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |