The New York Times, November 23, 2004
Terror Suspect Said Arrested in Indonesia
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 5:32 a.m. ET
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Indonesian police have arrested a key terror suspect
wanted in the 2002 Bali bombings, last year's attack on the J.W. Marriott Hotel and a
suicide blast in September at the Australian Embassy, a media report said Tuesday.
Rois, alias Iwan Darmawan, was arrested on Nov. 10 at a railway station on the
western tip of Java island, Kompas daily reported on its Web site quoting an
unidentified police source.
Police choose not to publicize the arrest while they confirmed the suspect's identity,
the report said.
Police were not immediately available to comment on the arrest.
Darmawan played a key planning role in the Sept. 9 attack on the Australian
Embassy, which killed 10 people including one suicide bomber, Kompas quoted the
police source as saying.
The report also said the suspect was involved in the Bali bombings, which killed 202
people, most of them foreign tourists, and a car bomb attack on the J.W. Marriott
Hotel that killed 12 people.
All three blasts have been blamed on the al-Qaida linked Jemaah Islamiyah terror
group.
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