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| Southeast Asia |
| Jakarta bombing suspects named |
| 2003-08-19 |
| Indonesian police have named five suspects wanted in connection with the bombing of an international hotel in Jakarta two weeks ago. The list includes two Malaysians who are also key suspects in the investigation into the Bali bombings last October, which killed 202 people. Another 10 men are being held in detention for questioning over the 5 August Marriott hotel attack, which killed 12 people and wounded 150. Police also said they were investigating reports that top South East Asian terror suspect Hambali, who was arrested last week, transferred $45,000 to a Malaysian citizen as recently as June. The Malaysian suspects identified on Tuesday are Dr Azahari, who police believe put together the bombs used in both the Jakarta and Bali attacks, and Noordin Mohd Top, the alleged commander of the Marriott plot. Police said they were also looking for three Indonesians, two of whom bought the van used to transport the Marriott bomb. Tisk, tisk, used their own names again. Read they tried to remove identification numbers from the van, if they watched CSI they’d know that doesn’t work. Of the 10 suspects currently being questioned, police said six were arrested in Sumatra in May - before the Marriott bombing — and have only subsequently become suspects. The other four have been detained since the attack but are only thought to have stored the explosives. The clarification of the suspects ends days of confusing, sometimes contradictory, information about the investigation into the attack, says the BBC correspondent in Jakarta, Rachel Harvey. It had earlier been reported that a 28-year-old man who died in the bomb, identified by police as Asmar Latin Sani, was believed to have carried out a suicide attack on the hotel. But police say they cannot confirm that it was a suicide bombing, our correspondent says. If it was detonated by cell phone like they say, I’d say our boy Asmar got a big surprise after he parked the van. Do you still get the virgins if you hadn’t planned on being a martyr? |
| Posted by:Steve |