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Mild-Mannered Hotel Florist Key Player in Indonesia Hotel Bombings

By Jeralyn

Remember the bombings last month at the Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott in Indonesia? Police now say a mild-mannered hotel florist was a key plotter.

Police on Wednesday disclosed that Ibrohim — Suhandi's roommate and friend of three years, whom he described as a "polite" man who used to give flowers to their neighbors on Valentine's Day — had smuggled in the explosives used in the bombings. He allegedly orchestrated the attacks with Southeast Asia's most wanted terrorism suspect, Noordin Muhammad Top.

The florist was killed in a police raid last weekend. It was initially thought that the raid killed a top-level al-Qaida person, but DNA tests showed it was the florist, now described as a "planner and arranger" of the bomb plot.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on August 13, 2009 (boomark / email).