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Police name mastermind of Kuta nightclub bombings as senior figure in terror group By Kathy Marks 18 November 2002 Police in Bali have named the mastermind of last month's bomb attack as an Indonesian man believed to be a senior operative with a regional terrorist organisation. Imam Samudra, alias Hudama, is thought to lead one of four South-east Asian chapters of Jamaah Islamiya (JI), an Islamist extremist group linked with the al-Qa'ida network. Intelligence officials believe he met JI's operations chief, Riduan Isammudin, in Thailand in January to plan the attack. The chief investigator, General I Made Mangku Pastika, said...

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