Police announced Thursday they detained a man who may be one of the masterminds of the suicide bombing at the Australian Embassy that killed nine people and injured nearly 180. Police chief Gen Dai Bachtiar told reporters that authorities on Wednesday stopped a man who fits the description of Noordin Mohamed Top, one of two Malaysian fugitives believed to have orchestrated the Sept 9 attack. The man was detained at an airport. Bachtiar didn't give further details, but said police were investigating the man and can hold him for seven days under the country's anti-terror law.
Police on Thursday released a man they initially suspected of being one of the masterminds of the suicide bombing at the Australian Embassy that killed nine people and wounded nearly 180. Earlier, the country's police chief told reporters that authorities on Wednesday detained a man who fits the description of Noordin Mohamed Top, one of two Malaysian fugitives believed to have orchestrated the Sept. 9 attack. "After we questioned the man, we concluded that he was not Noordin Mohamed Top," said spokesman Maj. Gen. Paiman. "We let him go."
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