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| US offers huge reward for Dulmatin |
| 2005-10-07 |
| Check out the sketch. United States is offering a reward of up to $13 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a suspected mastermind in the 2002 Bali bombings. Identified as Dulmatin, he is a member of the al-Qaeda linked Jemaah Islamiah group suspected of being behind last weekend's blasts that killed 22 people, including four Australians. The nightclub bombings in 2002 killed 202 people, most of them foreigners and 88 of them Australians. "A lot of time, collection of information and coordinating among various parts of the government" led to the posting of the reward, US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said today. "This is a process that takes time," he said a few days before the third anniversary of the massive attacks in which Indonesian investigators estimate up to 99 kg of fertiliser based explosives were used. Dulmatin is an electronics specialist with training in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a senior figure in the Jemaah Islamiah terror organisation, McCormack said. A reward of up to $1.3 million has also been offered for Umar Patek, whom McCormack said was believed to have served as an assistant for the field coordinator of the 2002 Bali bombings. |
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