Posted on 02/29/2004 6:42:08 AM PST by knighthawk
Indonesian police have arrested a man suspected of being implicated in the deadly Marriott hotel bombing in Jakarta in August 2003, a local daily reports.
The Kompas daily quotes East Java Police Chief Inspector General Firman Gani as saying the man, 'Dahlan', was arrested in the East Java town of Ngawi on Thursday.
"There was an arrest, of a suspect of that bombing. It was made by a team from the national police headquarters in the territorial jurisdiction of the East Java police," he said.
The hotel attack is blamed on the Al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah regional terror network, which is also accused of the Bali bombings of October 2002 and a string of other attacks.
An Indonesian court last week sentenced to 10 years in jail a man found guilty of having stored raw materials to build the bomb used in the hotel blast.
Four men are on trial in Jakarta for their alleged roles in the Marriott bombing and several others trials are due to follow.
Malaysian explosives expert Noordin Mohammad Top and Azahari Husin are the key suspects still being hunted for their role in the Marriott attack and in the Bali blasts, which killed 202 people.
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