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Indonesian police arrest top Islamist militant linked to Bali bombings
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Updated 4:02 AM ET, Mon December 14, 2020 A view of a bomb blast site on October 16, 2002 in Bali, Indonesia. The attacks occurred in the popular tourist area of Kuta on October 12, killing more than 200 people.
Jakarta, IndonesiaIndonesian police said they have arrested one of the most senior members of the al Qaeda-linked militant group Jemaah Islamiah suspected to be behind the 2002 bombings on the resort island of Bali that killed more than 200 people.
Jemaah Islamiah s stated aim is to build an Islamic caliphate in Southeast Asia.
Zulkarnaen, one of the commanders of the Bali attack, was arrested on Thursday by anti-terrorism police, spokesman Ahmad Ramadhan said in a statement on Saturday.
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“He was the leader of Jemaah Islamiyah during the attack,” police spokesman Argo Yuwono said.
Zulkarnaen, who also behind the bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta in 2003 that killed 12 people, was “being interrogated” and his residence was being searched, according to Argo.
Washington’s “Rewards for Justice” program had offered a bounty of up to $5 million (€4.3 million) for his capture he was the only Indonesian on the list.
JI was founded in Malaysia in the 1980s by a group of exiled Indonesian militants. The group was involved in ethnic and religious violence on the islands of Sulawesi and Maluku between 1998 and 2002 which left thousands dead.
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