A case of not-needed 'Malaysia boleh' accomplishment : Bali suspects on most-wanted list
Reading this BBC NEWS's on Bali suspects on most-wanted list, suddenly brings Malaysia to the forefront again, a cruel advertisment the developing nation of ours could not afford to keep on paying!
Anyways, why do we have people wanting to bomb other innocent people, that is the most chilling question to be answered in the first place!
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Azahari Husin (left, photo: AFP) and Noordin Mohamed Top (photo: AP) |
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Azahari Bin Husin and Noordin Mohamed Top have been named by Indonesia's counter-terrorism chief, Maj Gen Ansyaad Mbai, as the suspected masterminds of Saturday's suicide attacks.
Both are believed to be top leaders of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the shadowy group said to have links with al-Qaeda.
Gen Mbai said the new bombings bore the hallmarks of JI, blamed for the blasts which killed 202 people in Bali's popular Kuta beach tourist area in October 2002.
Azahari Husin was named in court as a bomb-maker in those attacks by one of those eventually tried and convicted for them, while Noordin Top is thought to have helped finance them. Newspapers have dubbed the two men the "Demolition Man" and the "Money Man".
Both men have been named as suspects in two other attacks - one in 2003 on Jakarta's JW Marriott hotel which killed 12, and one on the Australian embassy in 2004 which killed 11.
'Bomb classes'
Azahari Husin, a trained engineer, once worked as a university lecturer in Malaysia and in 1990 he gained a doctorate in property valuation from the UK's University of Reading.
A married father-of-two in his late forties, he is said by some to be a fanatic, ready to die for his cause.
He is believed to have given bomb-making classes to JI militants, and to have issued precise instructions on how the massive car bomb used at the Sari club in Bali was to be manufactured.
He is also alleged to have been a key figure at the JI planning meeting which selected Bali as a target.
Both he and Noordin Top went to Indonesia after fleeing Malaysia when it cracked down on Islamists following the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US.
On the run
According to Australian terrorism expert Clive Williams, Noordin Top is believed to be JI's top recruiter.
A former accountant, in his late thirties, he got married in Indonesia using an assumed name, Abdurrachman Aufi.
His wife, Munfiatun, was jailed in June for concealing information about his whereabouts.
Indonesian police think they have come within minutes of catching Noordin Top and Azahari Husin on different occasions.
In October 2003, they mounted a major search operation in the city of Bandung after failing to catch them in a swoop on a house where bombs were discovered.
Both men escaped during the swoop as the authorities feared they would detonate explosives they were reportedly wearing.
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