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Hambali Interrogated in Secret
Expands on yesterday's post...
Al-Qaida’s alleged Asian mastermind is being interrogated at a secret location by U.S. investigators, Thai officials said Friday.
What, they want us to televise it on Al-Jismra?
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.
"Lands o’Goshen! Next thing we knew, WHAM, he was in the slammer!"
``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.
Gitmo, please let it be Gitmo!
Bagram. Or maybe Aleppo...
Several Southeast Asian governments said they also wanted to question the man suspected of being the operational head of Jemaah Islamiyah. Hambali was arrested Monday at an apartment building on the outskirts of Ayutthaya, a major tourist attraction with its dozens of ancient Buddhist temples. Thaksin said the arrest came after a tip from residents. ``We arrested the suspect after people notified police about the appearance of the foreigner. And after we checked his passport, we found that he’s the one that’s wanted by several countries,’’ Thaksin said, according to Thailand’s state radio network.
That would seem to indicate that they had at least some of his false passports or aliases on record...
Plainclothes officers smashed down the door of Hambali’s one-room apartment and took him away after a violent struggle, residents in the building told The Associated Press.
"Sir, it looks like the arrest was a tad violent."
"Indeed. Well, slap another beefsteak on his eye and commence questioning."
Hambali had lived in the building, where all the other residents are Buddhists, for only two weeks, the other tenants said.
It was prolly Hambali muttering under his breath, "kill all the damned infidels, die, die, die" that made the neighbors suspicious.
Hambali is suspected in a number of attacks blamed on Jemaah Islamiyah, including the Aug. 5 bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta that killed 12 people and the October 2002 bombings of nightclubs on the Indonesian island of Bali that killed 202 people. Authorities also say Hambali is connected to the Sept. 11 plot, although whether he played a direct role is unclear.
Guess we’ll just have to drag it out of him!
Bali’s police chief, Maj. Gen. I Made Pastika, who led the inquiry into the nightclub bombings, said Hambali was in U.S. custody and had not been brought to Indonesia. Hambali is also wanted by Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines.
They can have what’s left after we’re done.
Posted by: Steve White 2003-08-16
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=17679