events
Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.
Related Wikipedia articles
Jemaah Islamiyah
Southeast Asian salafist organization (1993–2024)
Jemaah Islamiyah was a Southeast Asian Islamist militant group based in Indonesia, which was dedicated to the establishment of an Islamic state in Southeast Asia. On 25 October 2002, immediately following the JI-perpetrated 2002 Bali bombings, JI was added to the UN Security…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Riduan Isamuddin
Indonesian Islamist militant imprisoned in the US (born 1964)
Riduan Isamuddin, also known by the nom de guerre Hambali, is the former military leader of the Indonesian terrorist organization Jemaah Islamiyah (JI). He is currently in American custody at Guantanamo Bay detainment camp in Cuba. He is currently awaiting trial in a military…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Bangkok
Capital and largest city of Thailand
Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies 1,568.7 square kilometres (605.7 sq mi) in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estimated…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)