Radical Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, once imprisoned for his links to the terror group behind the Bali bombings, has been arrested for alleged involvement with a new militant network.
His lawyer, Muhammad Ali, said on Monday the arrest took place early on Monday in West Java’s Ciamis district.
Bashir is best known as the founder and spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, the Al Qaida-linked group responsible for the 2002 bombings on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali that killed 202 people.
National police spokesman Col Marwoto Suto confirmed arrest.
Police say they also discovered a bomb-making laboratory in Cibiru, a village southeast of the capital.
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