| After years of fruitless requests, Indonesian intelligence and counter-terrorism officers have finally met former Jemaah Islamiah (JI) operations chief Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, in the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, The Straits Times has learnt exclusively. A senior Indonesian counter-terrorist official and Western police sources confirmed yesterday that the meeting took place about two weeks ago, near the time of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's first official visit to Jakarta. |