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Mild-Mannered Hotel Florist Key Player in Indonesia Hotel Bombings

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.

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    Drat it! (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by Fabian on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 01:09:35 PM EST
    Where's a notorious villain when you need one?

    No recorded farewell message.  No political diatribe.  No gloating over the inevitable downfall of the ruling regime.

    There goes the narrative.  Perhaps they'll just report the facts, ma'am.

    Was now dead mild-mannered hotel florist (none / 0) (#2)
    by fairleft on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 02:01:22 PM EST
    in fact just another mild-mannered hotel florist?

    That was my first (cynical) thought... (none / 0) (#3)
    by kdog on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 02:28:25 PM EST
    pin it on the dead guy, close the file, and be home in time for supper.

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