JAKARTA: Police have interrogated the speaker of a provincial parliament in central Indonesia over possible links to al-Qaeda and involvement in the Bali bombings, police said yesterday.
Akram Kamaruddin, the speaker of the Central Sulawesi parliament, allegedly acknowledged to police that he had met a man believed to be al-Qaeda’s senior representative in South-East Asia, who is now in US custody, Central Sulawesi police chief Taufik Ridha said.
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