Riduan Isamuddin transliterated as Riduan Isamudin, Riduan Isomuddin, and Riduan Isomudin, better known by the nom de guerre Hambali, born as Encep Nurjaman is the former military leader of the Indonesian terrorist organization Jemaah Islamiyah, which is linked with al-Qaeda.
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Hambali is in American custody in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.
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Hambali was often described as "the Osama bin Laden of Southeast Asia".
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Hambali was highly trusted by al-Qaeda and was the main link between the two organisations.
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Hambali envisioned creating a Muslim state, in the form of an Islamic superpower across Southeast Asia, with himself as its leader.
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Hambali received increasing attention in the aftermath of the 2002 Bali nightclub bombing, in which 202 people died.
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Hambali was eventually apprehended in a joint operation by the CIA and Thai police in 2003.
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Hambali was the son of a peasant farmer, and was the second of thirteen children.
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Hambali first became involved with Jemaah Islamiah as a teenager.
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Hambali travelled to Afghanistan in 1983 to fight the Soviet Union during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
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Hambali's name has been transliterated into English text in several different ways over the years, including;.
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Hambali secretly married Isamuddin after meeting him at the Luqmanul Hakiem School in Ulu Tiram, Johor.
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Hambali soon disappeared from his home for weeks at a time, and he received many visitors at home.
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Hambali eventually came to own a red hatchback and several cell phones.
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Hambali provided financial assistance to the project until it was discovered by investigators on a laptop computer after an apartment fire on January 6,1995.
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Hambali's company attracted attention of investigators so his dealings went quiet for a while.
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Hambali decided to preach, raise money, and recruit for his cause.
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Hambali went underground in 2000 and started a wave of church-bombings in Indonesia.
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Hambali planned and attended the January 2000 Al Qaeda Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Hambali used a series of safe-houses throughout Southeast Asia, especially Thailand and Cambodia, to move around.
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Hambali had used a false Spanish passport to enter Thailand while his wife used her Malaysian passport.
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Hambali was wearing a pair of jeans, a T-shirt, a baseball cap, and a pair of sunglasses.
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On September 6,2006, President George W Bush confirmed that Hambali was being held by the CIA and revealed that he had been transferred to Guantanamo Bay.
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Hambali is wanted in the Philippines for the transfer of explosives on Filipino soil in an attempt to transport them to Singapore.
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Hambali promised the use of torture would cease at the camp.
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