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The Jakarta Post, 11/14/2006 4:57:13 PM

Wife of Dulmatin names 6 alleged militants hiding in RP

MANILA (AP): The detained wife of a top Indonesian terror suspect hiding in the southern Philippines has identified six other Asian militants allegedly on the run with her husband, a police official said Tuesday.

They include four Indonesians, a Singaporean and a Malaysian - all newly trained members of the Southeast Asian al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah group - Dulmatin's wife, Istiada Binti OemarSovie, told police investigators.

Dulmatin and Umar Patek, Indonesians suspected of plotting the 2002 nightclub bombings that killed 202 people on Indonesia's Bali island, have been hiding with top leaders of the local Abu Sayyaf militant group in southern Sulu province, officials said.

Dulmatin's wife "gave us six ot her names of foreign nationals who are presently with Umar Patek and Dulmatin in Sulu," said Chief Superintendent Romeo Ricardo, director of the national police intelligence group.

He did not identify them.

Dulmatin's wife was detained on the southern Philippine island of Jolo last month and was set to be deported to Indonesia when authorities finish questioning her, said Immigration Bureau intelligence chief Faisal Hussin.

U.S.-backed Philippine troops launched a manhunt for the militants in August.

Ricardo said Dulmatin and Patek could not find potential suicide bombers among Filipino militants, prompting Patek to try to look for bombers from Indonesia who would be willing to conduct attacks in the Philippines.

"Based on intelligence reporting around last year ... Umar Patek was communicating with his contacts in Indonesia asking his contacts to recruit suicide bombers from among the militants in Indonesia," Ricardo said.

He said that four suspected bombers were arrested in June 2005 in Malaysia's Sabah state, which borders the southern Philippines, and that several others were arrested this year. He did not elaborate.

Aside from the militants in the south, Ricardo saidauthorities were monitoring the presence near Manila of Christian converts to Islam suspected of plotting bomb attacks. (**)

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