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Indonesian unaware husband was Noordin Top: lawyer
Thu Jul 23, 2009 7:54am EDT
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - The Indonesian wife of Noordin Top, the region's most-wanted militant because of his role in a string of bomb attacks in Indonesia, did not know his real name and thought he was a teacher, her lawyer said on Thursday.
Malaysian-born Top is one of the prime suspects behind last week's near-simultaneous suicide bomb attacks on the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton, two luxury hotels in Jakarta's main business district, which killed nine people and injured 53, including Indonesians and foreigners.
Police and security analysts said the attacks bore the hallmarks of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the militant Islamist group responsible for previous attacks in Jakarta and on the resort island of Bali, or of a splinter group headed by Top.
Arina Rochmah was detained by the police under Indonesia's terrorism law, her lawyer Achmad Michdan told Reuters, adding that she could be charged for harboring or hiding information about a terror suspect.
Michdan said Rochmah had no knowledge that her husband, Abdul Halim, was Noordin Top, although she admitted he was seldom at home due to his work teaching at an Islamic boarding school in South Sulawesi.
He said that police took Rochmah, 25, her two children and her mother on Wednesday from an Islamic boarding school founded by her father in Cilacap, in central Java.
Michdan added that Rochmah had come to Jakarta and asked for legal protection a few weeks ago, after the police raided the family's house. Police said that a bomb found at the house was identical to those used in Friday's blasts.
Under the terrorism law, police have seven days to declare someone a suspect.
AUSTRALIA PM: "SICKENING"
Police have distributed sketches of the two suicide bombers, one of whom might have been as young as 16 or 17 years old.
"If those reports are true, it is sickening that these evil terrorists would prey on children to do their dirty work," Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told journalists in Bundaberg, in the country's north.
Three Australians are among the foreigners who died in the blasts.
The bombers checked into the Marriott as paying guests on July 15 and assembled the bombs in a room on the 18th floor, according to police.
A third bomb, which was found in a laptop computer bag in room 1808, was defused. Police said on Thursday the unexploded bomb had been timed to go off before the two suicide bombers blew themselves up.
"There was a timer (attached to the bomb), and from what was shown, it was supposed to go off before the two others that did go off," national police spokesman Ketut Untung Yoga Ana told a media briefing. Continued...
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