An image of the leader of Southeast Asian militant group JemaahIslamiah (JI) Zarkasih is displayed during a news conference at thenational police headquarters in Jakarta June 15, 2007. Indonesia hascaptured Zarkasih, the chief of the country's anti-terrorist unit saidon Friday. (Dadang Tri/Reuters)
"He is the emergency head of JI. He is above Abu Dujana and was captured on the same day," said Suryadarma Salim Nasution, who leads Detachment 88, the country's anti-terrorist unit.
Asian and Western authorities blame JI for a series of attacks in Southeast Asia, including the 2002 bombings that killed more than 200 people on Indonesia's resort island of Bali.
Although there has been no major bomb attack since 2005, in raids in March police said they had found a huge cache of weapons, explosives and chemicals that could be used to make a bomb even bigger than the main device used in 2002.
At the news conference, police showed video testimonies from Zarkasih and Dujana, in which the former said he was acting head.
"In 2004 there was a leadership vacuum and there was pressure to fill the vacuum. A body was set up to fill the void so we set up a caretaker body. My colleagues appointed me to lead the body," the grey-haired Zarkasih, 45, said on the video.
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An image of the leader of Southeast Asian militant group Jemaah Islamiah (JI) Zarkasih is displayed during a news conference at the national police headquarters in Jakarta June 15, 2007.
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They have already captured Abu Dujana, the leader of the terrorist Al-Qaeda linked group, as Australian FM Alexander Downer announced some days ago. We will see what they do with them. I am not very confident.
NOTE: It's curious to see that they are called militants...
Crossposted from Spanish Pundit.
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