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According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, on 5 August 2003, a large vehicle
bomb detonated outside of the J.W. Marriott hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia. Twelve persons were
killed and one hundred forty-four people were injured, including two United States citizens.
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An Indonesian National Police investigation, supported by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and other law enforcement agencies, revealed the J.W. Marriott hotel bombing was
planned and executed by members of the Southeast Asia terrorist group Jemaah Islamiya, a
group known to have solicited and received the support and guidance of al Qaida for its terrorist
activities in Southeast Asia.
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According to the Department of Homeland Security, Terrorist Organization Reference
Guide, Jemaah Islarniya (JI) is a Southeast Asia terrorist network with links to al Qaida. The
network plotted in secrecy through the late 1990s, following the stated goal of creating an
idealized Islamic state comprising Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the southern Philippines, and
southern Thailand. In addition to raising its own funds, the JI receives money and logistic
assistance from Middle Eastern and South Asian contacts, non-government organizations, and
other groups, including al Qaida. The JI was responsible for the Bali, Indonesia, bombings on 12
October 2002, which killed nearly 200 and wounded 300 others.
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Hambali (Riduan Bin Isomuddin a.k.a Hambali is the Jemaah Islamiya operations
chief and brother of Rusman Gunawan) instructed Rusman Gunawan (Gunawan) to contact
Ammar al Baluchi (al Baluchi), one of his contacts in Karachi, Pakistan, and request he provide
50,000 United States dollars to Hambali's contact in Bangkok, Thailand, a person known as
Zubair. According to Gunawan, after he requested this funding from al Baluchi, he was
contacted by the detainee. The detainee advised Gunawan he would travel to Bangkok,
Thailand, and meet with Zubair to assist in the movement of the money. The detainee provided
Gunawan with a cellular telephone number Zubair would be using. According to Gunawan, the
detainee told him he intended to contact Zubair by means of this cellular telephone.
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Ammar al Baluchi was captured on 29 April 2003 in Karachi, Pakistan, as he waited
for the delivery of explosives for an alleged plot against the United States consulate in Karachi,
Pakistan.
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Rusman Gunawan (Gunawan) advised Ammar al Baluchi (al Baluchi) that the detainee
would contact Zubair in Bankok, Thailand, and Gunawan provided the telephone number of
Zubair to al Baluchi. Gunawan later learned that Zubair and the detainee were known personally
to each other. According to the statement of Gunawan, the detainee contacted him
approximately a month and a half later and stated he had received the money. Subsequently,
Gunawan contacted Hambali, who advised him the money had been received, though he did not
specify by whom.
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According to the Indonesian Indictment of Rusman Gunawan in January 2004, the
detainee traveled to Bangkok, Thailand, to facilitate the movement of 50,000 United States
dollars from al Qaida to the militant Islamic group, Jemaah Islamiya. A portion of this money,
30,000 United States dollars, supported operational expenses to bomb the J. W. Marriott hotel in
Jakarta, Indonesia, on 5 August 2003.
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The Indonesian National Police investigation, supported by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and other law enforcement agencies, revealed that the J. W. Marriott hotel attack
was financed by persons who were members and associates of al Qaida. Rusman Gunawan
(Gunawan) admitted during interviews he played a role in the funding for the attack and
identified others who played a role in the movement of money from Pakistan, through Thailand,
and eventually to Indonesia. Among those identified as part of this scheme by Gunawan was the
detainee, a Malaysian citizen who was in Thailand.
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The detainee shared a house with Hambali during basic explosives training.
Additionally, the detainee shared a house in Karachi, Pakistan with other individuals in
November 2001.
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One of the individuals the detainee shared the house with in November 200 1 is an
admitted al Qaida operative and the leader of a suicide squad.
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The detainee was identified by an al Qaida operative as a member of an al Qaida
suicide team that was to participate in a plan to attack a building in the United States.
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An M-16 rifle with ammunition was found in the detainee's apartment after his
capture.
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Computer media recovered at the detainee's apartment after his capture contained
documents that described how to make bombs, grenades, dry ice bombs, and vest bombs. The
recovered computer media also contained documents with information on the high explosive,
pentaerythrite tetrannitrate (PETN) and information on making nitric acid.
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