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Southeast Asia
Indonesia Police Identify Aussie Embassy Attacker
2004-10-02
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian police on Friday identified the man they suspect was the suicide bomber in an attack on the Australian Embassy in Jakarta last month, and said the 30-year-old wrote to his pregnant wife asking permission to die a martyr.

Police chief Gen. Dai Bachtiar said the man, Heri Golun, was driving the small truck that blew up outside the embassy on Sept. 9. Nine people were killed, including the attacker, and more than 170 wounded. All the dead were Indonesians. DNA samples from body parts and blood samples found in or very close to the remains of the truck matched those taken from Golun's family, Bachtiar said.

The attack has been blamed on the al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah terror group, which also implicated in attacks on Bali Island in 2002 and a blast last year outside the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Jakarta. Police have arrested five people in the blast.
Posted by:Mark Espinola

#1  wrote to his pregnant wife asking permission to die a martyr.

You sure he was Islamic? I don't remember being whipped by wives being in the introductory brochure.
Posted by: Charles   2004-10-02 8:31:10 AM  

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