Rusman Gunawan
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Rusman Gunawan also know as Gun Gun is an Indonesian terrorist and the younger brother of the Jemaah Islamiah chief of operations Hambali. Born in the West Java town of Cianjur he moved to Pakistan to continue his Islamic studies in the local madrassas. After graduating he travelled to Afghanistan to train at the Al Ghuraba training camp.
From 1999 he was in charge of co-ordinating visits from JI Southeast Asia operatives to Afghanistan and Pakistan.[1]
During 2002 while he attended Abu Bakar Islamic university in Pakistan, he took over as the "intermediary" for e-mail messages between al-Qaeda and his older brother Hambali, who at the time was hiding in Cambodia.[1]
at the behest of the United States, he was arrested with six other Indonesian students during September 2003 in Karachi while he was attending the Abu Bakar Islamic University.[2]
He was taken back to Indonesia where he was sentenced in October 2004 to four years jail for facilitating and aiding terrorism. In particular he was found to have transferred the money (in Australian dollars) that was ultimately used to finance the 2003 Marriott Hotel bombing. [3]
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya" the Jamestown Foundation June 2 2006
- ^ "Swoops, once again, right on cue"Asia Times Sept 24, 2003
- ^ JW Marriott Hotel Bombing
[edit] External links
- "Marriott blast suspects named", CNN
- "Marriott Hotel in Jakarta reopens", Xinhua
- "Terrorism in Indonesia: Noordins Networks", International Crisis Group
- "Combating JI in Indonesia"Ng Boon Yian
- Jemaah Islamiyah Shown to Have Significant Ties to al Qaeda
- Learning by Doing:Al Qaeda's Allies in Southeast Asia
- Terrorism Perpetrated and Terrorists Apprehended
