'Little Arab' Umar Patek to return to Bali bomb site
UMAR Patek - blamed for killing 202 people in the Bali bombings - is expected to lead police on a re-enactment of the terrorist atrocity.
The 41-year-old known as "the little Arab" was captured in the Pakistan town of Abbottabad in January, a few months before Osama Bin Laden was killed there, and extradited to Indonesia in August.
Yesterday he was under tight security in the Bali capital of Denpasar, where sources said Patek was expected to be taken to the house in Menjangan allegedly used to build the bombs and could take part in a re-enactment in Kuta tomorrow.
Patek was shadowed by fellow prisoners Ali Imron, Sawad and Abdul Goni and a huge team of police officers as they arrived at the Polda headquarters, guarded by the anti-terror special unit.
Polda Bali public relations division head Sri Harmiti said the re-enactment would complete the investigation file on Patek. "One of the locations (of the re-enactment) is Ground Zero," he said.
Patek planned to meet Bin Laden
Patek is also wanted by Australia and the US for his alleged role in the October 12, 2002 Kuta nightclub blasts - in which 88 Australians died - and the 2000 Christmas Eve bombings. He is the alleged mastermind and accused of building the bombs which ripped apart the Sari Club and Paddy's Bar.
After more than eight years on the run, the terrorist with a $1 million price on his head is expected to be detained at a military base on Bali.
US intelligence agencies described Patek as one of the most militant and active members of Indonesian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiah (JI).
Earlier this month, Patek told journalists that he tried to cancel the Bali bombing because he believed jihad should be fought in countries outside Indonesia.
Patek was allegedly the deputy field commander of the terrorist cell that organised the Kuta bombings and one of JI's founding members, who allegedly helped organise a series of suicide bombings.
Anti-terrorism police escort alleged Bali bombmaker Umar Patek as he arrives at police headquarters in Denpasar yesterday. Picture: Anta Made Source: The Australian
TERROR suspect Umar Patek will return today to the Bali sites where the bombs he allegedly made nine years ago killed more than 200 people, including 88 Australians.
Patek, in custody in Jakarta since his extradition from Pakistan in August, has allegedly admitted to having built the bombs.
The 41-year-old will re-enact for police what he did in the final hours before the series of bombs were detonated on the night of October 12, 2002.
As part of that re-enactment, he will be taken to the site where the Sari Club once stood.
The popular nightclub was flattened when a massive car bomb was detonated by a suicide bomber just outside, killing and wounding scores of people inside.
He will show police where and how he and his alleged co-conspirators put the finishing touches to the deadly devices used for the attacks, as investigators look to build a rock solid case against him.
"One of the locations he will be taken to tomorrow is ground zero," a police spokesman said yesterday.
Patek's arrival in Bali comes after he claimed last week that he had attempted to stop the nightclub attacks from going ahead.
In comments published in the Jakarta Globe, Patek claimed he warned Bali bomb co-ordinator Imam Samudra to cancel the attack in favour of joining with other jihadists to take part in a holy war in Pakistan.
"I only advised him, but the planning for the Bali bombing was almost done and could not possibly be cancelled," he told the newspaper.
"I wanted to live and wage jihad in Afghanistan.
"It is a jihad area because Muslims have indisputably been colonised by America and NATO."
Investigators, however, have cast doubt on the comments and maintain that Patek was a central figure in Indonesia's single deadliest terrorist attack.
Authorities have previously conceded their chances of pursuing a terrorism case against Patek are limited because tough anti-terrorism laws introduced in Indonesia in 2003 cannot be applied retrospectively.
It is more likely he will be charged with premeditated murder and possession of explosives, as well as a number of other relatively minor offences.
The murder charges are likely to extend to a series of bombings of churches in Indonesian cities on Christmas Eve in 2000.
Patek, who trained in Afghanistan in the 1990s, spent almost a decade on the run before his capture in January in Abbottabad, the same Pakistani town where US forces killed al-Qa'ida leader Osama bin Laden in May.
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