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al-Qaida Suspect Interrogated in Secret
They were expecting maybe something on the teevee?
Al-Qaeda's alleged Asian mastermind is being interrogated at a secret location by U.S. investigators, Thai officials said Friday. Hambali, an Indonesian whose real name is Riduan Isamuddin, had been in Thailand more than a month when he was arrested following a tip off, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said. ``We had been following Hambali for several days and it happened that we just arrested him,'' Thaksin told reporters. ``Right now we are in the process of interrogating him with the allied countries. I cannot say where,'' Thaksin said.
He refused to elaborate or say whether the 39-year-old Hambali was still in Thailand. Military sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Hambali, was handed over to U.S. authorities and flown out of the country on Wednesday.
| "Hey, Hambali! You ever been to Bagram? Nice place, Bagram..." |
Several Southeast Asian governments said they also wanted to question the man suspected of being the operational head of Jemaah Islamiyah, a terrorist network affiliated with al-Qaeda and blamed for a string of bombings in the region.
| "Can we have him when you're done with him?" |
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-08-15 |
