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JAKARTA - Indonesia will be allowed to interrogate an alleged Asian terrorist chief being held at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a police spokesman said Saturday. U.S. officials had previously refused Indonesian investigators access to Hambali, also known as Riduan Ismaddin, because they said doing so could compromise their own investigation of his activities.
Indonesian police spokesman Maj. Gen. Sisno Adiwinoto said that FBI Director Robert S. Mueller told police chief Gen. Sutanto last month that investigators would be allowed access to Hambali, but did not say when. Sutanto goes by one name. Adiwinoto said that Indonesia would make a formal request to interrogate Hambali "very soon."
"We need to question him to get more information on the (al-Qaida) network in Indonesia," police chief Sutanto was quoted as saying by Koran Tempo daily on Saturday. Hambali, an Indonesian citizen, was arrested in 2003 by U.S. Central Intelligence Agency operatives in Thailand.
He is alleged to be the operations chief of the al-Qaida-linked militant group Jemaah Islamiyah, blamed for a string of bombings in Indonesia, including a 2002 attack on the resort island of Bali that killed 202 people. Indonesia has long demanded access to Hambali, who allegedly had links to two of the Sept. 11 hijackers. He was reportedly involved in a plan to recruit new pilots for another wave of suicide hijackings in the U.S.
Washington says it plans to put him on trial, but he has not been charged with any crime. An officer from Indonesia's branch of Interpol was quoted in Koran Tempo as saying officers had been given permission to interrogate Hambali because the United States had completed its probe.
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