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Mukhlas names new son after Osama
JPost - reg req'd A key Bali bombing suspect has named his son after Osama bin Laden, one of his lawyers said Saturday. The lawyer, Achmad Michdan, said he delivered a letter from the suspect, Mukhlas, to his wife instructing her what to name their newly born son. "He said the baby should be named Osama bin Laden, after the boss of al-Qaida. Mukhlas admires him," the lawyer said. Who'da thunk it? Police accuse Mukhlas, also known as Ali Gufron, of supervising the Bali attacks and suspect he is a key figure in Jemaah Islamiyah, an al-Qaida-linked Islamic group which Western governments believe was responsible for the Oct. 12 bombings. Mukhlas has not been formally charged in connection with the Bali blasts and remains in police custody. Meat tenderizing with truncheons takes time Two of Mukhlas' brothers, Amrozi and Ali Imron, are among 33 suspects detained in the bombings, which killed 202 people from 21 countries. Amrozi will be the first suspect to stand trial, starting Monday, and is charged with planning and carrying out an act of terrorism that caused massive casualties. Mukhlas' wife, Farida, was four months pregnant when she fled with her husband after the attacks. Police arrested them on Dec. 3 at a friend's house in a village on Indonesia's main island of Java. She has since been released from jail and has had no contact with Mukhlas. She gave birth Wednesday to the couple's sixth son, although she remains under house arrest and still faces charges for immigration violations. She is Malaysian and lacks proper immigration documents, officials say. Six sons? What, all the daughters smothered at birth? How...Islamic Posted by: Frank G 2003-05-10 |
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