http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2370051
Terrorism Focus
July 5, 2006
"Dulmatin, JI's Top Technician, Trains a New Generation of Fighters"
By Zachary Abuza
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Of the known leadership of Jemaah Islamiya (JI) at large, there is no one with a higher price on his head than Joko Pitoyo (known as Dulmatin), who commands a US$10 million bounty offered by the United States. Dulmatin, a skilled technician, remains the most wanted of the Bali bombers, whose bombings of two nightclubs on the resort island killed 202 people in October 2002. Dulmatin is one of the most important al-Qaeda-trained operatives at large, and, of equal importance, he is one of the four top JI leaders known to have sought safe haven in the southern Philippines where JI is regrouping and training a new generation of fighters.
Dulmatin, an Indonesian native, was born in Central Java in 1970. Although he had only limited formal scientific schooling, he developed significant bomb-making and electronics skills. Dulmatin was a student activist on his Central Javanese university campus. Coming from a well-to-do family, he dropped out of the university after being drawn into extremist teachings at al-Mukmin, the religious boarding school established by JI founders Abdullah Sungkar and Abu Bakar Ba'asyir (also known as Abu Bakar Bashir). With his keenness for electronics, it was only natural that he developed an interest in making bombs, and he forged a natural affiliation with JI's top bomb-maker, Dr. Azahari bin Husin (killed in a raid by Indonesian authorities in October 2005), whom he saw as "a father figure." He was later trained in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan in the late-1990s.
As Azahari's protégé, Dulmatin was involved in constructing JI's first bombs in 2000, as well as the Bali and JW Marriott bombs. The indictment of other Bali bombers made clear that Dulmatin was involved in almost every stage of the attack, from the planning to the actual bomb-making. In a September 2002 meeting, Mukhlas (the supposed mastermind of the Bali attack) also gave Dulmatin 20 million rupiah ($1,300) for bomb components.
Dulmatin fled to Mindanao in the southern Philippines soon after the August 2003 bombing of the JW Marriott in Jakarta. There, he is one of four top JI leaders—including Umar Patek, Zulkifli bin Hir and possibly Abdul Rahman Ayub—who have continued to train members of JI and the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) camps in the Philippines."
http://www.rewardsforjustice.net
http://www.rewardsforjustice.net/english/wanted_captured/index.cfm?page=dulmatin
http://www.rewardsforjustice.net/english/wanted_captured/index.cfm?page=Patek
| Bali bombers have 18 days left ^ |
||
| Posted by Aussie Dasher On News/Activism ^ 08/03/2006 8:51:21 PM CDT · 19 replies · 222+ views Herald Sun ^ | 4 August 2006 | Mark Dunn THE Bali bombers responsible for killing 88 Australians could have less than three weeks to live. The three killers -- Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, Imam Samudra and Ali Gufron -- will be shot at dawn on August 22, barring any 11th-hour appeals. Relatives of the men were told of the execution date last week. The evil trio will be taken from their cells on the island jail of Nusakambangan, off the south coast of Java, and driven to the nearby beach where they will be blindfolded and shot. Amrozi, 43, dubbed the smiling assassin, Samudra, 36, and Gufron, 46, also known... |
||
|
|
||
| Government to US, Australia: We’ll get Bali bombers ^ |
||
| Posted by Roy Tucker On News/Activism ^ 08/03/2006 2:37:28 AM CDT · 3 replies · 122+ views The Philippine Star ^ | 3 August, 2006 | Paolo Romero The government assured the United States, Australia and Indonesia yesterday that it would not let elusive Abu Sayyaf leader Khadaffy Janjalani and his two Jemaah Islamiyah cohorts, who are wanted for the 2002 Bali bombings, escape a military dragnet in Sulu. A civilian was killed and five soldiers were wounded in clashes outside the town of Indanan in Sulu as government troops pursued Abu Sayyaf rebels and several Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) militants who have joined forces in Mindanao, military officials said. The officials said at least three Abu Sayyaf rebels were killed and two others wounded as the military launched... |
||
|
|
||
| Bali bombers face firing squad 'in weeks' (before the end of July) ^ |
||
| Posted by dead On News/Activism ^ 07/10/2006 9:51:32 AM CDT · 19 replies · 444+ views Sydney Morning Herald ^ | July 10, 2006 - 4:13PM The three Bali bombers on death row will be executed by firing squad at the end of the month, according to the Denpasar prosecutors office. Lawyers for Imam Samudra, 36, Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, 43, and Ali Ghufron, alias Mukhlas, 46, had not lodged expected appeal documents, clearing the way for execution within weeks. Bali's Denpost newspaper today quoted officials as saying time had run out for the men convicted over the 2002 truck bomb blasts at the Sari Club and Paddy's Bar that killed 2002 people, including 88 Australians. The reported execution timetable could not be immediately confirmed today. "We... |
||
|
|
||
| Bombers' death date set (Bali bombers to face firing squad July 30th) ^ |
||
| Posted by naturalman1975 On News/Activism ^ 07/10/2006 3:12:46 AM CDT · 11 replies · 382+ views news.com.au ^ | 10th July 2006 | Rob Taylor THE three Bali bombers on death row will be executed by firing squad at the end of the month, according to the Denpasar prosecutors office. Lawyers for Imam Samudra, 36, Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, 43, and Ali Ghufron, alias Mukhlas, 46, had not lodged expected appeal documents, clearing the way for execution within weeks. Bali's Denpost newspaper today quoted officials as saying time had run out for the men convicted over the 2002 truck bomb blasts at the Sari Club and Paddy's Bar that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians. The reported execution timetable could not be immediately confirmed by AAP... |
||