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| Southeast Asia |
| Indonesian Police Arrest 2005 Bali Bomb Suspect, AFP Reports |
| 2008-05-06 |
| Indonesian police arrested a member of Jemaah Islamiyah, the Southeast Asian terrorist group, for his suspected role in a suicide bombing on the resort island of Bali in 2005, Agence France-Presse said. The arrested man, Faiz Fauzi, 28, was a close aide to Malaysian Noordin Mohammad Top and helped Top plan the 2002 suicide bombings on Bali which killed 202 people, 88 of them Australians, AFP said, citing a police spokesman. He was also an associate of Azahari Husin, another JI leader, who was killed in November 2005 in Malang, East Java, Indonesian police spokesman Abubakar Nataprawira said. Jemaah Islamiyah, which is linked to al-Qaeda, is blamed for a 2004 bomb attack outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta that killed nine people, a Marriott Hotel bombing in Jakarta in 2003 that killed 12 and a second attack in Bali in 2005, when three suicide bombers killed themselves and 20 other people. |
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