 Police have arrested the wife of one of Southeast Asia's most wanted terror suspects and plan to charge her in connection with last year's suicide bombing at the J.W. Marriott hotel in the Indonesian capital, police said in Saturday. Munfiatun Al Fitri, the second wife of Malaysian militant Noordin Mohammed Top, will be charged with hiding her husband after the Aug. 5 blast in Jakarta, which killed 12 people and injured more than 100, said police anti-terror chief Brig. Gen. Pranowo. "We have arrested Munfiatun Al Fitri as a suspect in the Marriott bombing," said Pranowo. "We caught her Sept. 22 at the Miftahul Huda Islamic boarding school in West Java and she has admitted being the wife of Noordin Mohammed Top." Police said Munfaitun met Noordin in June and married him a day later, believing him to be a good Muslim. Her crime is that she refused to tell police about Noordin's whereabouts despite knowing he was a suspect in the Marriott bombing and other attacks. Authorities suspect that Noordin and another Malaysian, Azahari bin Husin, are key leaders in the al-Qaeda-linked terror group Jemaah Islamiyah which has been blamed for a string of attacks in Indonesia dating back to 1999. |