Pakistan

Bali bomb suspect arrested in Pakistan: Indonesia

No confirmation from Pakistani authorities; Patek is a suspected member of a group linked to al Qaeda.

Afp March 30, 2011

JAKARTA: An alleged extremist believed to be one of the masterminds behind the 2002 Bali bombings has been arrested in Pakistan, an Indonesian counter-terrorism official said Wednesday.

"Umar Patek was arrested in Pakistan," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity, without giving further details about where or how Tuesday's arrest was made.

There has been no immediate confirmation from authorities in Pakistan.

Indonesia's counter-terrorism police have been tracking Patek for years. He has a $1.0 million bounty on his head under the US government's "Rewards for Justice" programme.

Born in 1970, he was the alleged field coordinator for the 2002 bombings of nightclubs in the Indonesian resort island of Bali, which killed 202 people including Australians and Americans.

Patek is a suspected member of Jemaah Islamiyah, an al Qaeda-linked militant group active in Southeast Asia, and Indonesian authorities believe that he has been hiding out in the Philippines.

COMMENTS (16)

Someone | 13 years ago | Reply All Arabs and suspicious jihadis shouldnt even be issues visas in the first place...why r u letting those "Muslim brothers" come into your country via ur airports in the first place....its as simple as that. Stop all this Muslim brother nonsense.....nowadays even real brothers are fighting between theselves

Syed | 13 years ago | Reply @ Hedgehunter, Well yeah you are right, but what Zia ul haq did, had to be done, because Russia wanted access to warm water not Afghan Mountains, if Russia hadnt been stopped then the next target was Pakistan. And at that time not only Middle east, the whole of Europe America and Asia were supporting those fighters, Practically it was whole world against USSR. The problem started after the withdrawal of USSR, there was a huge pressure vacuum, and the international community led by Uncle Sam, fled the region, so there was fighting among different Afghan groups. That led to storms of refugees in Pakistan so Pakistan alone had to interfere again, and that led to creation of Taliban. Pakistan with limited resources had no other option to bring stability in Afghanistan, the whole world had deserted this region. One has to appreciate, even though Taliban imposed erratic Laws over the country, but over all the country of Afghanistan was most stable in that time, after the fall of King to the present time. And they alone reduced the Drug supply of the world by 80%. So please understand theres always the other side of the coin.

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bvindh | 13 years ago | Reply If they searched for him in Pakistan first up, he would have been caught long time ago.

Sumair | 13 years ago | Reply Thanks to U.S and our so called leaders..

Hedgefunder | 13 years ago | Reply @Syed: Yes Syed, you are possibly right, however Who created this mess??? This was created by Pak Army in the late 70's - early 80's By certain despot Gen Zia, with assistance of CIA funds to create Mujahideen to fight the soviets in afghanistan. This was god given opportunity for Zia, to abuse the finance available to create freedom fighters to get rid of russians on behalf of americans!! and abuse the funds to hls whim. During this process with the assistance of saudi arabia and other middle eastern countries, they manged to recruit lot of arabs with nothing better to do!! Hence when russians left the region, these Mujahideen were left stranded without any purpose!!! Over the period of time the clash for power took place in afghanistan, and during the PPP tenure in power under BB, Pakistan assisted to create a body called TALIBAN !! Which manage to gain control of large parts of country and were officially recognised only by PAKISTAN & SAUDI ARABIA !! I leave it to your imagination as to why?? But this was the turning point in Pakistan's secularism and growing fundamentalism !!!

Syed | 13 years ago | Reply well yeah !! you guys are partially right! All the road leads here, but it doesnt end here, it goes to Afghanistan. Since PAkistan and Afghanistan share a porous border, which is impossible to be closed, they use Pakistan for its international link: Since Afghanistan itself doesnt have any. simple. and doing so 90% of the terrorist are caught within Pakistan .

Hedgefunder | 13 years ago | Reply @Sad: The answer is no! but i do have over 100 employees who run various operations for me ! furthermore i class myself as man of leisure and luxury to spend the time to my liking! my 12 yrs old son is sitting next to me and laughed at your comment!! As he knows better! By the way my very sincere commiserations for your loss in today's match, which has just finished!!!!!

Sad | 13 years ago | Reply @Hedgefunder: Why do I see your comments everywhere...??? Are you paid to write comments by some Indian company...?????

Cautious | 13 years ago | Reply Pakistan is considered the nexus of terrorism for a reason.

lovepakistan | 13 years ago | Reply @bs: Because of the brothern relations with Saudi Arabia.....no secret...

Hedgefunder | 13 years ago | Reply All roads lead to pakistan !!! In the terrorsim fraternity, it must known that the sanctury & shelter lies there!!!!!

chandran | 13 years ago | Reply arabs afgan indonesian kashmiris,uzbek,chechian every jhadis are spoiling pakisthan society. and one of the reason pakisthan western border is not fixed and fenced. and it is free for all to enter into pakisthan from western border

chandran | 13 years ago | Reply arabs afgan indonesian kashmiris,uzbek,chechian every jhadis are spoiling pakisthan society. and one of the reason pakisthan western border is fixed and fenced. and it is free for all to enter into pakisthan from western border

Ravi [India] | 13 years ago | Reply hahahaaaaaa...... how can a muslim do so ??? It must be raw , mossad , cia . mi6 , jews , cristians and hindus behind him

vasan | 13 years ago | Reply If this is true, then it is no wonder Pakistan is the epicentre of terrorism

bs | 13 years ago | Reply Another terrorist caught in Pakistan! Why is that every global Jihadist heads straight for Pakistan?

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