Azahari in touch with family while on the run<\/p>\n
Ridwan Max Sijabat and Indra Harsaputra, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta\/Surabaya<\/p>\n
Malaysian terrorist Azahari bin Husin, who was responsible for a
\nseries of bomb attacks that killed hundreds of innocent people in
\nIndonesia, appeared to have kept in touch with his family during
\nhis years as a fugitive.<\/p>\n
Personal documents found by police in the house where he was
\nkilled in a gunfight last Wednesday revealed that Azahari had
\ncommunicated with his family and siblings by letter and
\ntelephone.<\/p>\n
The police discovered dozens of international phone cards,
\nletters and a diary belonging to Azahari, along with guns and
\nexplosives, among the rubble of his hide-out in Batu district in
\nthe East Java regency of Malang. The building was severely
\ndamaged in what police believe was a suicide bombing by Azahari
\nand his operative Arman.<\/p>\n
In his last letter to his wife, Azahari asked her to pray for
\nhis efforts to wage a jihad so that he could die as a martyr. The
\nletter, which was found inside the diary, never reached his wife
\nin Malaysia.<\/p>\n
\"To die in such a way will assure me of a place in heaven and
\nenable me to bring 70 members of our extended family. Remember me
\nto our son and take care of him,\" the letter, written in Malay,
\nreads.<\/p>\n
Azahari and his compatriot Noordin M. Top, two of the most-
\nwanted operatives of the al-Qaeda-affiliated Southeast Asia
\nterrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah, are believed to have
\nmasterminded a series of bloody attacks in Indonesia, including
\nthe 2002 Bali bombings, Jakarta's JW Marriott Hotel blast in
\n2003, and the attack on the Australian Embassy in 2004. Police
\nhave also linked them to last month's suicide bombings in three
\nBali restaurants.<\/p>\n
Police also found a letter from Azahari's wife Wan Noraini
\nJusoh, expressing her fears that he could be killed at anytime.
\nNoraini and their son also advised Azahari to take care of
\nhimself and she said their son frequently uttered the word
\n\"grave\" in his sleep.<\/p>\n
Azahari's widow regarded the death of her husband as an
\nexpression of God's will.<\/p>\n
\"She has come to accept his death,\" Noraini's brother Wan
\nKamaruddin quoted her as telling AFP.<\/p>\n
Speaking outside her home in a suburb of Kuala Lumpur,
\nKomaruddin said: \"She accepts it as fate (decided by God). As a
\nMuslim, we have to accept this.\"<\/p>\n
Azahari, who liked adventure and watching cowboy movies, was a
\nrespected big brother in his family, and the mathematics expert
\nencouraged his nine siblings to study hard.<\/p>\n
Azahari's 45-year-old sister, Suraya, cherished the good side
\nof his childhood and adulthood saying he loved the outdoors and
\nonce hitchhiked on a lorry from the premier Malay College Kuala
\nKangsar, where he studied, to his home in Jasin as a teenager.<\/p>\n
She said her brother was intelligent, competitive at school
\nand liked adventure. Azahari studied at the English-medium SK
\nInggeris and SM Inggeris in Jasin and moved to MCKK when he was
\nin Form Three. He then studied in Australia and took a PhD in
\nmathematics in Britain.<\/p>",
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