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Mild-Mannered Hotel Florist Key Player in Indonesia Hotel Bombings

By Jeralyn, Section Foreign Affairs
Posted on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 10:43:45 AM EST
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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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    Mild-Mannered Hotel Florist Key Player in Indonesia Hotel Bombings | 4 comments (4 topical)

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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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    He may have been complex (none / 0) (#4)
    by Dark Avenger on Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 06:08:45 PM EST
    like this fictional character:

    Garak's personality is complex. He is optimistic and polite, traits that he uses to obscure people's knowledge, or suspicion, of his work as a spy. Despite his image of an optimistic and well-mannered being, he is widely known to be deceitful, even to those whom he considers to be "friends," e.g. Doctor Julian Bashir.

    Mandatory Link

    And of course, working in a hotel, he'd know the routine and how to game any 'gaps' in security.

    "Dead men tell no tales."

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