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To: KLP who wrote (52435)	10/17/2002 11:16:15 AM
From: BigBull	Respond to of 281500

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 Excellent TIME article on this al-Faruq dude. Don't recall seeing it posted earlier so here it is. The Indonesian govt. knew al Qaeda was operating on their soil - you betcha! (I've just excerpted the first two paragraphs the real good stuff comes later) ------------------------------------------------------------ Confessions Of An Al-Qaeda Terrorist American interrogators finally got to Omar al-Faruq, who detailed plans to launch a new terror spree in Southeast Asia. A TIME exclusive time.com Sunday, Sep. 15, 2002 For someone interested in quietly leading a terrorist's life, the rainy Indonesian hamlet of Cijeruk is a nice place to settle down. Nestled among lush, green paddies and swaying banana trees, an hour's drive outside the chaotic capital city of Jakarta, Cijeruk consists of a single two-lane road lined by a row of well-kept cottages. It's a good spot to hide from the authorities, if you have reason to be on the run — which may be how Omar al-Faruq, a 31-year-old drifter from Kuwait, ended up living there, in a concrete house that belonged to the family of his Indonesian wife Mira Agustina, 24. After moving to Cijeruk last year, al-Faruq tried to fit in with locals, getting by with functional Indonesian-language skills and an ID card that said he was from the eastern Indonesian city of Ambon. His wife says he read and taught the Koran and stayed close to home — until one day in June, when he vanished. "He called at noon that Wednesday to say he was going to the mosque," says Mira. "I never heard from him again." If she is to be believed, Mira, like the rest of the world, is only beginning to discover the truth about her husband. On June 5 government agents arrested al-Faruq at a mosque in nearby Bogor. Three days later, Indonesian authorities deported al-Faruq to the U.S.-held air base in Bagram, Afghanistan, where CIA investigators have been interrogating suspected members of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist organization. But al-Faruq was no ordinary operative.