Indonesian TV pinpoints history of suspected bomber
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    JAKARTA, July 21 (Xinhua) -- One of suspected suicide bombers of two luxurious hotels in Jakarta Nurhasbi had studied in an Islamic boarding school led by militant cleric Abu Bakar Baashir and was one generation with suicide bomber of one of the hotels in2003, Metro TV said here on Tuesday.

    The cleric had been charged for implicating in a conspiracy in terrorism, following the string of terrorist attacks in the country from 2000 to 2005 that killed more than 250 people. The Ngruki boarding school in Central Java had been attended by several members of Southeast Asia terrorist network of Jemaah Islamiah, which are responsible for the attacks.

    Director of the school cleric Wahyudin said that Nurhasbi, alias Nur Aziz, had been studied at the school along with Asmar Latin Sani, the suicide bombers of the JW Marriot Hotel in August 2003 that killed 12 people and wounded dozens others.

    "Nurhasbi is one generation with Asmar Latin Sani, he graduated in 1994, and after that we don't have much information about him," Wahyudin said.

    The blasts in JW Marriot Hotels and Ritz Carlton in Jakarta's main business district that killed nine people and injured 53, including foreigners and Indonesians, occurred after four-years absence of major terrorist acts in the country.

    The Jemaah Islamiyah is the main suspect on the bombings at the two hotels as the police have found similarities in equipment and method of the bombs with those detonated in Bali in 2002 and 2005,and that found in recent raid in Cilacap of Central Java.

    The National Police spokesman Sulistyo Ishak said that the bombers put bolts and used black powders.

    Indonesia had been attacked by a series of terrorist attacks from 2000 up to 2005, including Bali bombings, the JW Marriot explosion and the Australian embassy bombings in Jakarta that killed more than 250 people.

    The police and analysts said that the bombings in the two hotels were made by a breakaway of Jemaah Islamiyah led by Malaysian fugitive Noordin Moh Top, who had organized the major bombings in Indonesia, targeting foreigners and facilities. He has been the police main target.

Editor: Fang Yang
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