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US to hand Hambali to Indonesia
US President George W Bush promised to return Southeast Asia's top terror suspect Hambali to Indonesia for trial once American investigators have finished questioning him. The White House confirmed that Bush agreed to try to make sure Hambali was handed over to Indonesia. "He committed to work with them at an appropriate time, that he would work to make sure that Hambali was handed over," White House communications director Dan Bartlett told reporters in Canberra during Bush's visit there. "He did not set a timetable for that. (Indonesian) President Megawati (Sukarnoputri) seemed reassured by that commitment." Hambali, the alleged operations chief of the al-Qaeda linked Jemaah Islamiah network, was arrested in August in Thailand. The Indonesian citizen has been interrogated by US agents at an undisclosed location ever since.
"More giggle juice, Hambali?"
"Yesh, shank yew..." |
"Absolutely, Bush promised to hand over Hambali to Indonesia for trial," Indonesian foreign ministry spokesman Marty Natalegawa said. "The only condition is that the process of interrogation (by US agents) has to be completed. Bush said that still needed more time."
"How much time, G.W.?"
"'Bout 15 years..." |
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-10-23 |
