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| Southeast Asia |
| Demolition Man is the top suspect in Jakarta bombing |
| 2004-09-09 |
| THE car bomb attack bore all the hallmarks of Malaysian terror suspect Azahari Husin, the senior member of an al-Qaida-linked group. Azahari, a professor who spent time studying at university in Adelaide, has eluded police since other Bali bombing suspects named him as the man who supervised the making of the car bomb that exploded outside the Sari Club in Kuta two years ago. Police also believe he was responsible for the August 2003 bombing of the Marriott hotel in Jakarta. A long-time operative of terror group Jemaah Islamiah, Azahari, a geophysics professor, penned the 50-page JI bomb manual, which, complete with diagrams, showed how to use mobile telephones as detonators for bombs. In Malaysia, newspapers call him "Demolition Man", such is his deadly proficiency in bomb manufacture. Azahari is believed to be protected by a small circle of Jemaah Islamiah members. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |