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| Pakistan hands over six Indonesian terror suspects |
| 2003-12-10 |
| Pakistan Wednesday handed over six Indonesian students held on suspicion of terror links to a delegation from Jakarta for repatriation to their homeland, officials said. The detainees includes Rusman Gunawan, the younger brother of alleged top terrorist Hambali, considered al-Qaeda’s pointman in Asia and also former operations chief of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terror group. "Gun-Gun" Gunawan, former future JI leader in training The students have been handed over to the delegation, a senior government official told media here. The official would not disclose when the Indonesian students would be flown out of Pakistan. Foreign office spokesman Masood Khan confirmed the handover and said the Indonesian delegation, which arrived here Sunday, had come with a formal request to take custody of the six detainees. The Indonesians had been studying at the Abu Bakar Islamic University in Karachi before their arrest in September. Have to wait and see if the Indonesians do anything more than catch and release. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #1 Indonesia, please take note: Malaysia has issued two-year detention orders on five students who allegedly trained as a new generation of leaders of the Southeast Asian Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terror group, a report said Wednesday. They were sent to an Islamic school in Pakistan by Hambali, the detained operations chief of the al-Qaeda-linked JI, where they were among 13 students arrested and deported by the Pakistani authorities on November 10, a daily reported. The other eight students have been released, though four have been placed under restriction orders limiting their movements and will be closely monitored by the police. The five jailed under the Internal Security Act (ISA), which allows indefinite detention without trial, had been trained to carry out bombing and suicide attacks against American interests in Malaysia and worldwide, the daily said. The five detained were named as Abi Dzar Jaafar, Mohamad Ikhwan Abdullah, Eddy Erman Shahime, Mohamad Radi Abdul Razak and Mohamad Akil Abdul Raof. |
| Posted by: Steve 2003-12-10 1:31:03 PM |