Indonesian police arrest alleged Bali bomb plotter

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JAKARTA (AFP) — Indonesian police said on Monday they had arrested a key member of radical Islamist group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) who allegedly helped plot a suicide bombing on the resort island of Bali in 2005.

A police spokesman said Faiz Fauzan, 28, who was paraded before the media at a press conference, was a close aide to the group's fugitive alleged terror mastermind, Malaysian national Noordin Muhammad Top.

Hewas also an associate of Azahari Husin, another Malaysian national believed to have helped Noordin plan the suicide bombings which killed some 200 people, mostly tourists, in Bali in 2002, the spokesman said.

Azahari was shot dead during a police raid on his hideout in Batu, East Java, in November 2005.

"The accused is suspected of...