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...Here soldiers discovered compact discs and files relating to JI operations, including a JI spreadsheet carefully documenting the expenditure of €40,000 on food, motor boats and vans, and even cell-phone cards. "I think it was Umar Patek who was doing the group's accounts," says Sabban. ICG terror expert Collier thinks Patek is more than just a terrorist bean counter. "He commands Abu Sayyaf Group forces and he can be seen as an ASG commander in his own right," Collier says, "as well as a JI freelancer. Dulmatin and Patek are both still in communication with allies...
...During the interrogation a tearful Istie said that wives are obliged to support their husbands even if the men are involved in armed jihad; her children's future, too, "may be sacrificed for this means." According to the transcript, she told police that Dulmatin and Patek linked up with local separatist groups to evade capture...
...MILF commander Mokasid Delna. That relationship is important, says Kit Collier, an Australian political scientist who recently compiled a report on combating terrorism in Southeast Asia for the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based think tank. "Delna was in the same Afghan training camps in 1991 as Umar Patek, making him a key ally," Collier says. Zamboanga police chief Col. Lurimer Detran has told the media that Salahudin Hassan, who carried out the bombing at Edwin Andrews Air Base, is a relative of Delna...
...Collier warns that if peace talks between the Philippine government and the MILF breaks down, Dulmatin and Patek would be well placed to launch further terrorist attacks. "There's no doubt they are very canny operatives. Patek in particular is a combat veteran of impressive credentials, an Afghan veteran who has also been fighting - going back to the 1990s - alongside the MILF...
...While Patek and Dulmatin were establishing themselves in the Philippines, says Pastika, their two fellow fugitives relied on an extensive network of supporters and family in central Java, Indonesia, to escape and regroup. Of all the wanted men, Noordin Top is regarded as the most dangerous, accused by Indonesian police of orchestrating the bombings of the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta in 2003, the Australian embassy in 2004 and the second Bali bombings in 2005. "He's very good at recruiting people and getting them to commit suicide, not at making bombs," says General Pastika. The ICG, in a 2006 report...