JAKARTA: The purported new military chief of Jemaah Islamiah is among a handful of Indonesians in direct contact with al-Qaeda and is now considered the most lethal terrorist in Asia, plotting fresh attacks in the region, officials said.
Known as Zulkarnaen, the highest-ranking Jemaah Islamiah leader still on the loose is believed to head an elite squad that helped carry out a suicide bombing at a Jakarta hotel that killed 12 people, in addition to helping prepare bombs that killed 202 people in Bali, US and Indonesian officials said.
