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Hambali associate arrested
 Indonesian police have reportedly arrested a key associate of alleged Southeast Asian terror mastermind Hambali on an island in the country's far northeast. Adrian Ali, alias Amin, was arrested on Tinakareng, north Sulawesi province, after police found equipment used to make identity papers in his house, Koran Tempo newspaper reported, quoting local police Colonel Johnny Hotma Hutauruk as saying. Two other suspects were arrested with Ali, the report said. The report did not say when the arrests took place, nor what the men would be charged with. Police were not immediately available for comment. Tinakareng lies just south of the Philippine's Mindanao island, where Jemaah Islamiah, al-Qaeda's Southeast Asian ally, is reported to run terrorist training camps. Hutauruk said Ali was a key associate of Hambali and accompanied him on trips to Afghanistan, Pakistan and the southern Philippines before Hambali was arrested in Thailand last year.Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-09-29 |
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