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Hambali’s Wife Detained
Malaysia has placed the wife of captured South-East Asian terrorist suspect Hambali into detention without trial for at least two years for alleged ties to the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah network.
Goodbye!
Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi signed the order for Noralwizah Lee Abdullah to be detained under the Internal Security Act after police - who have interrogated her for almost two months - deemed her a "national security threat". Noralwizah, 33, a Malaysian, was arrested on August 11 with Hambali in Thailand and handed over to Malaysian authorities. Hambali, an Indonesian whose real name is Riduan Isamuddin, is Jemaah Islamiah’s alleged operations chief. The Malaysian official said Noralwizah is a member of Jemaah Islamiah who underwent an "initiation ceremony" in the organisation several years ago. In the ceremony, recruits pledge to be "willing to die in helping to defeat the enemies of Islam".
She learned the secret handshake
"She was more than a wife to Hambali," the official said. "She was a trusted aide who handled funds of the Jemaah Islamiah."
That’s rather unusual for a islamic group, guess she is one of those asian "dragon lady" types.
The official said Noralwizah still wielded "some influence" in the network, despite Hambali’s arrest. He did not elaborate.
"I can say no more"
Hambali has reportedly been yielding details of Jemaah Islamiah’s membership, funding networks and planned terrorist operations to interrogators since his arrest.
Even if he’s not, it’s good to say he is.
His younger brother, Rusman Gunawan, was arrested by Pakistani police along with 13 Malaysians, two Burmese and another Indonesian at Islamic schools in Karachi last month. Malaysian officials have said the students were being groomed as future leaders of the suspected terrorist network. At least three of the Malaysian suspects have fathers who are in custody under Malaysia’s Internal Security Act for alleged Jemaah Islamiah membership.
It’s that family thing again.
Hambali was among dozens of Indonesian religious radicals who fled their country during a crackdown in the late 1980s and moved to Malaysia, where they built a network using a now-closed Islamic school in the southern state of Johor as a recruiting station. Noralwizah married Hambali in the early 1990s after they met at the school.
School girl crush on her teacher, huh?
More likely Uncle Abdullah traded him his daughter for a goat...
Hambali and Noralwizah disappeared after the September 11 attacks in the United States, and he was South-East Asia’s most-wanted terrorist suspect until his arrest. Thai officials have said he may have been plotting attacks to disrupt the upcoming summit in Bangkok of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.
Which is next week, I believe. Stay tuned.
Posted by: Steve 2003-10-16
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