KUALA LUMPUR: Hambali, once dubbed the face of terror in South-East Asia, is providing vital information to security agencies on the operations of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda movement in the region.
It is learnt that the Indonesian preacher, who had plotted and carried out a militant campaign, has told his interrogators how al-Qaeda had funded the Jemaah Islamiah, the extremist group he headed that has been blamed for church bombings in Jakarta and the deadly 2002 Bali bomb blasts.
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