Bali bombing suspect extradited
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August 12, 2011, Friday
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A KEY suspect in the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people was escorted to Indonesia under tight security yesterday, six months after he was captured in the same northwestern Pakistani town where Osama bin Laden was killed.
Umar Patek, an al-Qaida-linked Indonesian militant, had a US$1 million bounty on his head when authorities caught up with him in January in Abbottabad - just a few miles from where US commandos killed al-Qaida chief bin Laden in a raid four months later.
Ansyaad Mbai, Indonesia's anti-terrorism chief, said it was no coincidence the two men were in the same town.
"It is further evidence of the link between the southeast Asian terror network and al-Qaida," he said.
The 41-year-old militant was taken quietly to a Pakistani air force base on Wednesday evening, put on an Indonesian plane and flown to the capital, Jakarta. He was taken to a police detention center in the West Java town of Kelapa Dua after landing.
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, has suffered a string of terrorist attacks blamed on the al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah network, but the Bali bombing was the deadliest.
Mbai said Patek has admitted scouting the site before the attack on two nightclubs packed with foreign tourists, and has admitted helping to assemble the 1,000-kilogram bomb hidden in a Mitsubishi van.
Patek allegedly told investigators he also provided explosives for the Christmas Eve attacks on churches in 2000 that killed 19 people.
Umar Patek, an al-Qaida-linked Indonesian militant, had a US$1 million bounty on his head when authorities caught up with him in January in Abbottabad - just a few miles from where US commandos killed al-Qaida chief bin Laden in a raid four months later.
Ansyaad Mbai, Indonesia's anti-terrorism chief, said it was no coincidence the two men were in the same town.
"It is further evidence of the link between the southeast Asian terror network and al-Qaida," he said.
The 41-year-old militant was taken quietly to a Pakistani air force base on Wednesday evening, put on an Indonesian plane and flown to the capital, Jakarta. He was taken to a police detention center in the West Java town of Kelapa Dua after landing.
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, has suffered a string of terrorist attacks blamed on the al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah network, but the Bali bombing was the deadliest.
Mbai said Patek has admitted scouting the site before the attack on two nightclubs packed with foreign tourists, and has admitted helping to assemble the 1,000-kilogram bomb hidden in a Mitsubishi van.
Patek allegedly told investigators he also provided explosives for the Christmas Eve attacks on churches in 2000 that killed 19 people.
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