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...Batam is only a 15-minute ferry ride away from Singapore, the world's busiest port, and "HQ" is the rendezvous for scores of Indonesian sailors looking for work. Legitimate jobs are hard to come by, however, and that's why, says a thin, short man who calls himself Nurdin, "we'll grab whatever offer comes first, legal or illegal...
...Nurdin's last "offer" was a year ago when a middleman sought a crew to bring in a Taiwan-flagged tanker, the Luen Fatt, after it had been hijacked. Nurdin and 13 other sailors steered the ship to the virtually unregulated waters around Batam, he says. Within hours, the cargo of diesel oil was unloaded and the 1,249-ton tanker repainted, renamed and on its way to a broker. Sometimes, Nurdin continues, his clients want only the "skin," which means just the vessel, of a certain size, length and capacity, while at other times it's only the "guts...
...terror. But they were followed by bitter disappointment. Shortly after Tohir and Ismail were nabbed, says National Police chief detective Erwin Mappaseng, two bigger fish got away through a maze of small alleys in Bandung. Police say Dr. Azahari bin Husin, JI's alleged master bombmaker, and Nurdin Mohamad Top, a fellow Malaysian and suspected bomb expert, had been hiding out in a boarding house in Bandung for six weeks. Apparently, the two Malaysians got wind of the earlier arrests-and disappeared. When police searched the Bandung boarding house, they discovered six small bombs. Says one officer: "Azahari is obsessed...
...Police have circulated detailed sketches of Azahari and Nurdin in various guises, and members of Task Force 88, a group of Indonesian police trained in counterterrorism by U.S. special forces, have joined the hunt. "Key players are still out there," says one officer close to the investigation, "and they are determined...
...transporting into Jakarta aren't the only resource JI members have at their disposal. Indonesian police say that a suspected JI operative named Rusdi, arrested by police in April in Pekanbaru, Sumatra, has confessed that he left 300 kilograms of explosives in the hands of Azahari bin Husin and Nurdin Mohammed Top, two senior JI operatives with whom he was traveling when he was apprehended. Police believe both were instrumental in the Bali plot, with Azahari responsible for designing and assembling the main bomb. The pair managed to evade police and are still at large. Early analysis of the composition...