Source of bomb funding same as Marriott: Police<\/p>\n
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta\/Bandung\/Klaten\/Makassar<\/p>\n
The money used for the deadly blast at the Australian Embassy was
\nlikely part of a US$50,000 fund, which also paid for the expenses
\nused in the attack at the JW Marriott Hotel last year, a police
\ngeneral close to the investigation said on Monday.<\/p>\n
\"Apparently, there was a sufficient amount of money still left
\nfrom the funds used to finance the Marriott bombing,\" he told The
\nJakarta Post without elaborating further.<\/p>\n
The general said the money transferred to the perpetrators of
\nthe Sept. 9 embassy blast that killed at least 10 people,
\nincluding one suspected suicide bomber, came from outside the
\ncountry via unidentified members of the al Qaedah-linked regional
\nterrorist network Jamaah Islamiyah (JI).<\/p>\n
Usman Gunawan alias Gun Gun, the younger brother of alleged JI
\nleader Riduan Isamuddin, alias Hambali, confessed to police that
\nhe transferred the US$50,000, along with telecommunications
\nequipment to his brother last year before both were arrested.<\/p>\n
Hambali has been in U.S. custody at an undisclosed location
\nfollowing his capture in Thailand in August 2003.<\/p>\n
The JI has been blamed for a string of terrorist attacks in
\nIndonesia, including the Bali bombings on Oct. 12, 2002 and the
\nMarriott attack in Jakarta on Aug. 5, 2003.<\/p>\n
Gun Gun and several other Indonesian students, including
\nMohammad Syaifudin, Ilham Sofyandi, David Pintarto, Furqon
\nAbdullah, Muhammad Anwar As-Shadaqqi, were arrested in Karachi,
\nPakistan, last September for their alleged roles in terrorist
\nactivities.<\/p>\n
The suspects were subsequently handed over to the Indonesian
\nauthorities and several of them are still on trial for helping
\nfinance terrorism.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the police general also confirmed that one of the
\nfugitive terror suspects, identified only as Heri, whose picture
\nwas released on Saturday, was the same person identified as Rois,
\nwho is also suspected for having a role in the Marriott bombing.<\/p>\n
Heri was the last owner of the van used in the embassy blast,
\npolice have said.<\/p>\n
Speculations grew on Monday that Heri was himself the possible
\nsuicide bomber after police said the DNA tests showed that body
\nparts found at the site did not match the DNA taken from family
\nmembers of Hasan and Jabir, two men who were previously suspected
\nof being the suicide bombers.<\/p>\n
The National Police began on Monday distributing millions of
\nposters with pictures of Azahari bin Husin and Noordin Muhammad
\nTop as well as other terror suspects across Indonesia, including
\nall provinces on the island of Java as well as South Sulawesi, to
\nseek public help to capture them.<\/p>\n
The police have put a Rp 1 billion (US$111,000) reward over
\nthe heads of Azahari and Noordin for information leading to their
\narrest. The two are Malaysian nationals operating with JI in this
\ncountry.<\/p>\n
The posters carried various possible versions of what the two
\nalleged bomb masterminds could look like now, along with
\nstatistics about their features and body types.<\/p>\n
Other posters have the images of the seven other suspects
\nidentified as Hasan, Abu Dujana, Dul Matin, Rois, Dzulkarnaen,
\nZuhroni, alias Oni or Nuaim, as well as Umar, alias Patek or
\nZacky.<\/p>\n
The police are offering a reward of Rp 500 million for the
\ninformation leading to the arrest of one of them.<\/p>\n
In Bandung, West Java, dozens of police detectives combed the
\nvillage of Citepus in Cicendo district, where Azahari and Noordin
\nwere rumored to be hiding out.<\/p>\n
Police disseminated thousands of pictures of Azahari, Noordin
\nand the eight other suspects at polling stations across Klaten in
\nCentral Java and Makassar in South Sulawesi.<\/p>",
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