Jadi yang menangkap Umar Patek itu serdadu Pakistan..
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Militant arrested in Pakistan after years on the lam
Umar Patek is accused of helping to mastermind the 2002 suicide bombings of
nightclubs in Bali that killed 202 people
Anjum Naveed / AP
A bullet hole is seen in the house of Abdul Hameed, right, in Abbottabad,
Pakistan. Indonesian al-Qaida-linked militant Umar Patek was arrested in
Hameed's house in January after being on the run from a $1 million U.S. bounty
on his head for allegedly helping to mastermind the 2002 suicide bombings of
nightclubs in Bali that killed 202 people.
By ASIF SHAHZAD, CHRIS BRUMMITT
The Associated Press
updated 4/14/2011 2:16:41 PM ET 2011-04-14T18:16:41
ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan A hailstorm was lashing this Pakistani hill town when
Abdul Hameed's son came to his room with an unusual request: He had come across
a foreign couple, cold and shivering in the street, and could he give them food
and shelter for a few days?
Hameed had spare rooms on the second-floor that he occasionally let out since
his older children had left home.
His wife urged him to let the couple stay. "They were human beings in need,
what else could I say?" said the retired accountant.
The couple were mysterious, never leaving their room upstairs, Hameed said, not
even to go to the house's sheltered courtyard with its views over pine-clad
hills. Hameed's youngest daughter left the guests a tray of food three times a
day only to return to find it barely touched, he said.
Around nine days later, the identity of the male guest became clear, when a
squad of heavily armed Pakistani intelligence agents raided the home.
"Keep your mouth shut and your hands up", they told Hameed and his family as
they went room to room and then up the stairs.
Two shots rang out, and minutes later they hauled the man, bleeding, out the
building.
The run of good luck had ended for Umar Patek, an al-Qaida-linked Indonesian
militant who for 10 years had been on the run from a $1 million American bounty
on his head, for allegedly helping mastermind the 2002 suicide bombings of
nightclubs in Bali that killed 202 people.
Pakistani officials had kept Patek's detention on Jan. 25 secret until two
weeks ago, when the Associated Press first revealed word of it. But until now,
where or how one of the biggest terror arrests under the Obama administration
went down was not publicly known.
The details highlight how Pakistan continues to be a draw for Islamic militants
from around the world despite the risks of traveling here.
His case also illustrates the durability of the wide-ranging international
connections among militants. Patek had intended to travel along with two French
militants to North Waziristan, the Afghan border region where al-Qaida's top
command is based, according to a Pakistani intelligence official briefed on the
40-hour operation. Many of the terrorist plots against the West over the past
decade have originated from the territory.
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The two French militants were also arrested, separately from Patek, the
official said. A French counterterrorism official on Thursday confirmed the
arrests of the two. He could not verify the other details, but said he would be
"surprised" if either had links to Patek.
Patek, who trained with al-Qaida in Pakistan before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks
in the United States, was able to remain plugged into transnational terror
networks despite being one of the world's most wanted militants. Southeast
Asian authorities had said he was hiding out in the southern Philippines for
much of the last 10 years, fighting and training with an allied insurgent army.
Indonesian and Filipino security officials said Patek left the southern
Philippines in late May last year before traveling to the Middle East. One
official said he was believed to have attended a meeting of Southeast Asian and
Mideast militants in the holy city of Mecca.
Patek, a slightly built 40-year-old, is now believed to be in a Pakistani army
hospital being treated for bullet wounds to his legs, according to Indonesian
officials.
Hameed said Patek looked like "a slaughtered chicken" when he was brought down
from the upstairs room, but the seriousness of his injuries has not been
revealed. There were two bullet holes in the room, one in the window and one in
the ceiling. But Hameed said there was considerable blood in the room's
en-suite bathroom and outside the door. Pakistani officials have not said
whether Patek was armed.
There has been no word on the whereabouts of his wife, who has been described
as either Indonesian or Filipino.
Questions also remain over his fate, and there are signs he may be caught up in
tensions between Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence agency and the CIA,
which have previously cooperated during terror arrests and would like access to
him.
Islamabad has said it will not hand Patek over to the CIA and that he will be
sent to Indonesia. But officials in Jakarta don't appear that keen to have him,
and have expressed doubts whether they could make charges stick against him for
his alleged role in the Bali attacks.
Abbottabad is in northwest Pakistan, one of the first towns on the famed
Karakoram Highway that leads to the Himalayas and China and less then a day's
drive from the Afghan border. During the era of British rule, it was a major
garrison town and it remains so today, with Pakistani troops now occupying the
barracks built and lived in by the region's former rulers.
Officials did not say how or why Patek ended up there, but his arrest followed
the detention of an alleged al-Qaida facilitator in the town called Tahir
Shehzad, who worked as a clerk at the town's post office, a squat building just
across the road from the British-era St. Luke's Church.
Tahir had been under surveillance since last year when he was spotted in
Abbottabad with an Arab terror suspect, said the intelligence official, who
like all Pakistani spies is not permitted to give his name.
When he left town on Jan. 23, agents followed him to Lahore, Pakistan, where he
was arrested with the two French militants, whom he had picked up from the
international airport there. They were "French al-Qaida" operatives, one of
Pakistani origin, the other described as a white Muslim convert, the official
said.
"Patek and the French had plans to travel to North Waziristan," the official
said.
Shehzad led officers to Hameed's house.
Patek and his wife arrived in Pakistan around five months ago traveling on
forged Pakistani visas, the official said, but he did not disclose if the
agency knew where they had been staying before Abbottabad.
Patek was once a leading member of Jemaah Islamiyah, a Southeast Asian militant
network whose core was made up veterans of the "jihad" against Soviet forces in
Afghanistan in the 1980s.
Most of the top leadership and many foot soldiers have been arrested or killed
since 2002 in a widely praised, U.S- assisted crackdown. Patek was perhaps the
last of his generation on the run.
His travels are similar in some ways to that of Abu Jibril, an Indonesian
currently serving time in Jakarta over hotel bombings in 2009. Jibril was found
guilty of obtaining funding for the bombings while visiting Saudi Arabia in
2008. By his own admission, he also traveled to North Waziristan before his
arrest.
Hameed's son, Kashif, was arrested alongside Patek, and Hameed has not heard
anything of him since.
The ISI frequently detain people for months, if not years, without informing
their relatives, much less charge them with any crime or present evidence of
wrongdoing. Answerable to no one, the institution is feared by many Pakistanis.
Hameed maintains that his son, a telecommunications student in a college in
Abbottabad, was innocent and had no militant links.
"He was not a terrorist, he was just a boy, a nothing, a baby," he said as he
shuffled to the door with his visitors, a pair of pink "Croc" sandals on his
feet. "Those two people trapped my son and my family. What can I expect now?
What can I expect now?"
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Associated Press Writers Niniek Karmini in Indonesia, Jim Gomez in the
Phillpines and Jamey Keaten in France contributed to this report.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not
be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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