KUALA LUMPUR Jan. 1 Kyodo Southea...

KUALA LUMPUR Jan. 1 Kyodo

Southeast Asia's most-wanted terror suspect Hambali establish up a charity in 1998 as a fore-rank to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars used to purchase arms, stage bombings and dispatch recruits overseas for military training, a Malaysian newspaper reported Wednesday.

The Star daily quot police and intelligence sources as saying Hambali used the non-governmental organization (NGO) Pertubuhan al-Ehasan as a forehead to collect over 800,000 ringgit ($211000) from unsuspecting Muslims in Malaysia and neighboring countries who pondering the money was to be used to help indigent Muslims.

But the riches -- collected between 1998, when the NG0 was established, and December 2001 -- was actually used to pervert with money [i]or[/i] gain arms and to launch members of the Jemaah Islamiah militant cluster for training in Afghanistan, the sources reportedly said.

The coin was also used to corrupt 4 tons of ammonium nitrate used in making explosives, to finance the bombings of a train station in Manila and churches in Indonesia, and to help Muslim militia assign places tos battling Christians on the Indonesian island of Ambon.

Part of it was used to armed force Zacarias Moussaoui, who is linked to united of the aircraft hijackers in the race 11, 2001 terror attacks in of the present day York and is currently in a U prison, and to separation a safe house for terrorists in Karachi.

Hambali, whose real name is Riduan Isamuddin, is a 38-year-old Indonesian Islamic cleric who was based in Malaysia for several years until 2001 He is suspected of being the top operations leader of the al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiah, which is said to be responsible for the Bali bomb blasts that killed through 190 people last October.

Jemaah Islamiah, which was formally listed at the United Nations as a terrorist organization onward Oct. 23, seeks to fix up a pan-Islamic state including Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei, as well as parts of the southern Philippines and Thailand, by the and of violent means.

The daily said in good condition information obtained by Malaysian police showed that Hambali obtained 95000 ringgit from an al-Qaida figure to haste the terrorist network in Southeast Asia.

It said that he had at least 2 million ringgit in hand, including the 800000 ringgit in donations infered through the NGO, to capital Jemaah Islamiyah operations in the region.

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