Word: samudra
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...police hustled Imam Samudra from a prosecutor's office in Bali to a waiting armored vehicle last Wednesday, after evidence was presented relating to his alleged role in the Oct. 12 bombings that left 202 people dead, he showed no remorse. Instead, he raised his manacled hands in defiance and shouted, "Allahu Akbar (God is great)." Then came a chilling warning: "After Riyadh," he vowed, "there will be more." It may have been the angry bravado of a man who knows he may soon face the death penalty, but Samudra?accused of being the operational commander of the Bali bombings...
...that potassium chloride be used with TNT to enhance the intensity of the blast, a characteristic of the main Bali bomb. Another chapter shows how to use a cell phone as a detonator, a method used in one of the three explosions in Bali. According to Indonesian police, Imam Samudra, the alleged coordinator of the Bali attack, named Azahari as the key bombmaker in his confession...
...alleged bomb maker, detailed sketches of Christian churches. (Laskar Jundullah is openly anti-Christian; Indonesian intelligence officials suspect that the group has been provoking tension in Maluku and Poso.) According to National Police Chief Da'i Bachtiar, one of the men arrested, Suryadi, is an associate of Imam Samudra, whom police say was the mastermind of the Bali bombings and a devotee of Abubakar Ba'asyir, alleged co-founder of JI. "Dwikarna, the bombers, Abubakar?all of these people know each other and are connected in some way," says South Sulawesi Police Chief Firman Gani...
Amrozi met with Samudra several times in August and September this year to discuss Bali, according to his confession to Indonesian police. The last time they met, "we had a chat after praying together at the Great Mosque in Solo," he said to police. Samudra told Amrozi he would send some cash. Amrozi bought the van and the chemicals used in the bombing and ferried them to Bali. When he, Samudra and a number of the other planners met at the resort island, Amrozi was reminded of his place in the pecking order. "At one point I asked them where...
After the Bali bombings, the team dispersed. Patient police work soon led the authorities to Amrozi, who had used his own name to buy the van that carried the main bomb. Samudra, more experienced, managed to stay on the lam for five weeks, carefully limiting his cell-phone conversations to 20 seconds to foil police scanning. The latest technology, however, requires only a few seconds to trace a call, and on Nov. 21 police tracked down Samudra and nabbed two of his bodyguards. They said their boss planned to board a bus about to leave on a ferry to Pekanbaru...