Riduan Isamuddin is in American custody in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.
24 Facts About Riduan Isamuddin
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Riduan Isamuddin is currently awaiting trial in a military commission.
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Riduan Isamuddin was highly trusted by al-Qaeda and was the main link between the two organisations.
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Riduan Isamuddin's ambition was to rule Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and parts of the Philippines, Myanmar, and Thailand.
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Riduan Isamuddin received increasing attention in the aftermath of the 2002 Bali nightclub bombing, in which 202 people died.
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Riduan Isamuddin was eventually apprehended in a joint operation by the CIA and Thai police in 2003.
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Riduan Isamuddin is currently imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, after three years of CIA custody in a secret location.
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Riduan Isamuddin was born Encep Nurjaman in the rice belt of Sukamanah, a small village in Cianjur Regency, in the province of West Java, Indonesia.
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Riduan Isamuddin was the son of a peasant farmer, and was the second of thirteen children.
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Riduan Isamuddin first became involved with Jemaah Islamiah as a teenager.
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Riduan Isamuddin was a diligent student at his Islamic high school, Al-Ianah.
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Riduan Isamuddin travelled to Afghanistan in 1983 to fight the Soviet Union during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
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Riduan Isamuddin's name has been transliterated into English text in several different ways over the years, including;.
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Riduan Isamuddin's nickname, Hambali, is an allusion to Hanbali, an Islamic school of jurisprudence.
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Riduan Isamuddin secretly married Isamuddin after meeting him at the Luqmanul Hakiem School in Ulu Tiram, Johor.
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Riduan Isamuddin soon disappeared from his home for weeks at a time, and he received many visitors at home.
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Riduan Isamuddin eventually came to own a red hatchback and several cell phones.
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Riduan Isamuddin 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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Riduan Isamuddin decided to preach, raise money, and recruit for his cause.
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Riduan Isamuddin went underground in 2000 and started a wave of church-bombings in Indonesia.
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Riduan Isamuddin was wanted in Indonesia for the bombings of several churches in the region, and wanted for the Bali bombing and a failed plot on several targets in Singapore.
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Riduan Isamuddin promised the use of torture would cease at the camp.
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Riduan Isamuddin was one of the 71 individuals deemed too innocent to charge, but too dangerous to release.
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Riduan Isamuddin was denied approval for transfer on September 19,2016.