[ppi] [ppiindia] Indonesia: Jailed Students Had Been Recruited By Hambali

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Indonesia: Jailed Students Had Been Recruited By Hambali

JAKARTA, Jan. 29 (AP)--Four students under arrest in Indonesia had
been recruited by a key terrorism suspect to be trained in Pakistan and
become future leaders of Southeast Asia's Jemaah Islamiyah militant group, a
government official said Thursday.

Hambali - the alleged Jemaah Islamiyah leader who is now in U.S.
custody - financed their trip from Indonesia to Pakistan, Ansyaad Mbai, who
heads the counterterrorism desk at the Coordinating Ministry for Political and 
Security
Affairs, told The Associated Press.

The students served as liaisons between the Southeast Asian militant
group and al-Qaida, and had traveled to Afghanistan and Pakistan to be
trained, he said.

"Interviews with Malaysian and Thai authorities as well as other
Islamic students in custody in Malaysia revealed that they were being trained
to become leaders," he said.

The four Indonesians were among 19 foreign students arrested by
Pakistani security officials during raids on Islamic schools in Karachi in
September. They were deported and arrested upon their arrival in Jakarta.

The four men have since been charged by Indonesian prosecutors with
having "links to terrorist acts."

But their attorney rejected the terrorism charges, saying two of them
had admitted to helping Hambali raise funds for Muslim militants who were
fighting against Christians in the Maluku islands in 2001. The other two have
only admitted to forging documents.

"These four are innocent of terrorism," their attorney
Mahendradatta said Thursday. "The government should release them."

Malaysia has lodged similar charges against five Malaysians who were
part of the original group in Pakistan and are currently in Malaysian custody.

The Jemaah Islamiyah network has been blamed for a number of terrorist
attacks in Southeast Asia including the 2002 nightclub bombings on the
resort island of Bali that killed 202 people.

Mbai acknowledged the case will rest on getting access to Hambali.

"Their link is with Hambali," Mbai said. "But until now, we've got no access to 
Hambali. Without access, it will be impossible to link these cases."

The U.S. government is said to be considering an Indonesian request to
question Hambali.

-Edited by Mary de Wet 



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