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Indonesian Police Move Top Terror Suspect for Investigation

Associated Press

   JAKARTA, INDONESIA - Indonesian authorities transferred 23 suspected
   militants arrested in recent weeks to the capital on Wednesday,
   including a man suspected of helping make the bombs for the deadly 2002
   attacks on the island of Bali.

   Among those transferred was Aris Sumarsono, better known as Zulkarnaen,
   who is accused of involvement in making a number of bombs, including
   those for the Bali attack, which killed 202 people, mostly foreign
   tourists, and a 2003 attack on the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Jakarta that
   killed 12.

   The suspects were flown under the tight guard of Indonesia's elite
   counterterrorism squad from Lampung province on Sumatra island to a
   police detention center in the Jakarta for further questioning.
   Television footage showed the suspects wearing orange uniforms and full
   face masks and their feet and hands cuffed as they were led off the
   plane.

   Zulkarnaen was arrested Thursday by counterterrorism police in a raid
   at a house in East Lampung district on Sumatra island after a hunt of
   more than 18 years. Police have accused him of being the military
   leader of the al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah network.

   Police say Zulkarnaen was among the first Indonesian militants to go to
   Afghanistan in the 1980s for training, led a militant training camp in
   the southern Philippines and masterminded a number of attacks in
   Indonesia.

   Since May 2005, Zulkarnaen has been listed on an al-Qaida sanctions
   list by the U.N. Security Council for being associated with Osama bin
   Laden or the Taliban. The council said that Zulkarnaen, who became an
   expert in sabotage, was one of al-Qaida's representatives in Southeast
   Asia and one of the few people in Indonesia who had had direct contact
   with bin Laden's network.

   The United States' "Rewards for Justice" program had offered a bounty
   of up to $5 million for his capture. He was the only Indonesian on the
   list.

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