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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (52433)	10/16/2002 2:42:16 PM
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Saudi suspected of funding to buy bombs bangkokpost.com An unidentified Saudi supplied funds to the Indonesian-based Jemaah Islamiyah network to buy explosives that may have been used in the Bali bombing, an authority on Osama bin Laden's al- Qaeda said yesterday. The information on the Saudi funding was gathered in US interrogations of Omar al-Faruq, a Kuwaiti linked to al- Qaeda who was arrested in Indonesia last June and later handed over to US authorities in Afghanistan, said Rohan Gunaratna, author of the book Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror. The money was sent to Jemaah Islamiyah earlier this year, said Mr Gunaratna, who has seen the US interrogation papers. The amount sent by the Saudi donor was $74,000, the Financial Times said. Mr Gunaratna said the explosives were bought from Indonesian army officers who sold the material illegally. In Bali, police chief Budi Setyawan would neither confirm nor deny a Washington Post story that a former member of the Indonesian air force had confessed to building the bombs that killed more than 200 people, mostly foreign travellers, on Saturday. Asked about the story at a news conference, he said: ``Later that information will be developed. I will give that to investigators.'' Mr Gunaratna said the explosives obtained from the military could have been used in the Bali bombings. Initial indications have reportedly shown traces at the site of the military explosive C4, the same material used in the al-Qaeda-linked bombing of the USS Cole in the port of Aden in Yemen two years to the day before the Bali attack.