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Indonesian jugs Jakarta boom mastermind
 Indonesian police have arrested the alleged mastermind of a blast that killed three people at a McDonald's restaurant in the South Sulawesi provincial capital of Makassar in late 2002, an officer has told media. Islamic militant Agung Hamid -- who may also have a tie to last month's bombing at the Australian embassy in Jakarta -- managed to evade a police hunt for almost two years before he was nabbed in the central Java city of Yogyakarta on Sunday, Antara national news agency reported on Monday. Hamid cursed the United States and clenched his fist in the air on Monday when he was about to be transported to Sulawesi island, Jakarta-based news radio station El Shinta said.South Sulawesi police chief Saleh Saaf told reporters Hamid might also have played a role in the September 9, 2004 bombing in front of the Australian embassy that killed nine people. "Agung Hamid is also being investigated over suspicions of involvement in the bomb because, from our information, he has communicated with Azahari, the Malaysian who is accused of being the brain behind several terror bombings in Indonesia," Antara quoted Saaf as saying. Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-10-04 |
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