updated Sat. August 17, 2024
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San Francisco Examiner
April 25, 2018
Shortly afterward, U.S. and Thai personnel captured Riduan Isamuddin, an Indonesian al-Qaida suspect better known as Hambali, outside Bangkok. Over several days, CIA officers kept Hambali naked, held him in stress positions and deprived him of solid food, according to the Open Society report.
The Straits Times
August 5, 2017
Hambali, whose real name is Riduan Isamuddin, is a former Al- Qaeda operative and a leader of the Jemaah Islamiah (JI). The 53-year- old Indonesian, nabbed in Bangkok in 2003 for masterminding the JI-led Bali blasts that killed 202, has been detained in Guantanamo Bay since 2006 without charge.
Asia Times
July 3, 2017
It has been 14 years since American and Thai intelligence agents tracked down and captured Indonesian terrorist mastermind Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, after discovering he frequented a mosque in Thailand's ancient riverside capital of Ayutthaya. While Indonesian authorities haveÃâà...
South China Morning Post
October 28, 2016
For the Past 13 years, al-Qaeda's most powerful leader in Southeast Asia, Indonesian Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, has been held in Guantanamo Bay prison, out of public sight but still very much in the minds of militants and security agencies across the region. Hambali, 52, has a fearsomeÃâà...
NEWS.com.au
October 26, 2016
Indonesian-born Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, has been in detention since his arrest in 2003 after being accused of being al-Qaeda's man in the region. Under pressure to review all cases at the infamous terror prison camp Guantanamo and move prisoners to mainland US jails and courts,Ãâà...
The Straits Times
August 22, 2016
JOHOR BARU (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Malaysia has said it hopes the United States Periodic Review Board will reject a petition by known Indonesian terrorist Hambali, also known as Riduan Isamuddin, for his release from Guantanamo Bay prison. The government sees the former Al-QaedaÃâà...
The Straits Times
August 22, 2016
JOHOR BARU (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Malaysia has said it hopes the United States Periodic Review Board will reject a petition by known Indonesian terrorist Hambali, also known as Riduan Isamuddin, for his release from Guantanamo Bay prison. The government sees the former Al-QaedaÃâà...
The Guardian
December 12, 2014
In 2003, Thai authorities helped to capture Riduan Isamuddin, alias Hambali, a senior member of the south-east Asian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah, widely believed to be behind the 2002 Bali bombings and considered the CIA's “number one target” in the region. According to the report, “the capture ofÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
December 31, 1999
Shortly afterward, U.S. and Thai personnel captured Riduan Isamuddin, an Indonesian Al Qaeda suspect better known as Hambali, outside Bangkok. Over several days, CIA officers kept Hambali naked, held him in stress positions and deprived him of solid food, according to the Open Society report.
