Indonesian hotel bomb suspect 'recruited by al-Qaida-linked group'

POLICE said yesterday the suspected suicide bomber in the Jakarta Marriott hotel blast that killed 10 people had been recruited by the al-Qaida-linked regional terror group Jemaah Islamiyah.

Indonesian hotel bomb suspect 'recruited by al-Qaida-linked group'

Two Jemaah Islamiyah members already in custody were shown a reconstructed photograph of the alleged bomber, identified him and admitted to recruiting him, said Indonesian chief of detectives Erwin Mappaseng.

The pair, Mappaseng said, identified the man in the photograph whose severed head was found at the bomb site as Asmar Latin Sami, a 28-year-old man from the island of Sumatra.

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