 Police from an elite East Java counterterror squad arrested two men on Friday for their alleged connection with Jemaah Islamiyah leaders Noordin M. Top and the late Azahari Husin. National Police spokesman Brig. Gen. Anton Bahrul Alam said police from the Detachment 88 squad apprehended Ahmad Basir in Surabaya on Friday. Basir was believed to have harbored the JI leaders in a safe house, Anton said. He could also be charged with arranging for another man, Kholili, a suspect in detention for the 2005 Bali bombings, to attend military-style training in Solo. Another suspect, Ahmad Arif Hermansyah, was taken into custody a day after Basir's arrest. He is suspected of supplying Noordin's group with the TNT used in 2004 bombing of the Australian Embassy. Anton said police were continuing to question the two men. |