Suspects Identified in Indonesia Blast | L A Times

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3:10 PM PDT, August 11, 2003

Suspects Identified in Indonesia Blast

By Richard C. Paddock, Times Staff Writer

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Two skilled bomb-makers who allegedly assembled the deadly Bali car bomb last year are likely suspects in the Marriott hotel blast in Jakarta that killed 11 people, police said today.

Dr. Azahari Husin, a Malaysian university lecturer, and Dulmatin, an Indonesian electronics expert, have evaded a manhunt for the past nine months and may have made the bomb that struck the Marriott. While on the run, police believe the pair stayed for a time in the Sumatra home of Asmar Latin Sani, the Muslim militant who drove the car bomb to the JW Marriott on Aug. 5 and died in the explosion.

The alleged involvement of Azahari and Dulmatin is another sign that the Marriott bombing was probably the latest in a series of attacks carried out over the past four years by Jemaah Islamiah, a Southeast Asian extremist group affiliated with Al Qaeda.

Police have arrested dozens of suspects connected to Jemaah Islamiah since the Bali blast that killed 202 people Oct. 12, but warn that the terror group may strike again soon in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital.

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1. Well that was predictable

except it's internal to Indonesia, and unlikely to be any Al Qaeda.

Indonesia has lots of internal problems unrelated to the US

But it's handy label.