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| Southeast Asia |
| Student sheltered terrorists |
| 2009-10-14 |
| [Straits Times] INDONESIAN police questioned on Tuesday a college student and aid agency volunteer who allegedly arranged shelter for terrorists behind hotel bombings in Jakarta. Mathematics and science major Sonny Jayadi, 24, was believed to have rented rooms at a Jakarta boarding house for militant brothers slain last week in a raid on the building, police spokesman Nanan Sukarna said. Jayadi was arrested on Saturday in the West Sumatra coastal town of Padang, where he was helping victims of a powerful Sept 30 quake that killed more than 800 people and devastated vast areas of the country's westernmost island. Jayadi, who remained in custody on Tuesday for interrogation, allegedly paid rent for Syaiffudin Zuhri and Mohamad Syahrir - key members of a terrorist cell led by the late regional Al-Qaeda commander Noordin Top. Zuhri allegedly recruited two young suicide bombers, while Syahrir was an explosives expert. A third brother, Ibrohim, worked as a florist at the J W Marriott and the Ritz-Carlton hotels and smuggled in the bombers and explosives. |
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