Rusman Gunawan

Rusman Gunawan, also know as "Gun Gun", is an Indonesian jailed for "facilitating and aiding terrorism". He is the younger brother of the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) chief of operations, Hambali. Born in the West Java town of Cianjur, he moved to Pakistan to continue his religious studies at an Islamic school ("madrassas"). After graduating, he travelled to Afghanistan to train at the Al Ghuraba training camp.

From 1999 he was in charge of co-ordinating visits from JI Southeast Asian operatives to Afghanistan and Pakistan.

During 2002, while he attended Abu Bakar Islamic University in Pakistan, he took over as the "intermediary" for e-mail messages between al-Qaeda and his older brother Hambali, who at the time was hiding in Cambodia. [http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2370016 "Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya"] the Jamestown Foundation June 2 2006]

At the behest of the United States, he was arrested with six other Indonesian students during September 2003 in Karachi while he was attending the Abu Bakar Islamic University. [ [http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/EI24Df06.html "Swoops, once again, right on cue"] Asia Times 24 September 2003]

He was taken to Indonesia where he was sentenced in October 2004 to four years jail for "facilitating and aiding terrorism". In particular, he was found to have transferred the money (in Australian dollars) that was used to finance the 2003 Marriott Hotel bombing. [ [http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/ops/marriot.htm JW Marriott Hotel Bombing] ]

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* [http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/08/19/indonesia.arrests.names/ "Marriott blast suspects named"] , "CNN"
* [http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-09/09/content_1070934.htm "Marriott Hotel in Jakarta reopens"] , "Xinhua"
* [http://merln.ndu.edu/archive/icg/Terrorism5May06.pdf "Terrorism in Indonesia: Noordins Networks"] , International Crisis Group
* [http://www.sais-jhu.edu/bwelsh/BYPolicyPaper.pdf "Combating JI in Indonesia"] Ng Boon Yian
* [http://www.jinsa.org/articles/articles.html/function/view/categoryid/1701/documentid/2720/history/3,2360,655,1701,2720 Jemaah Islamiyah Shown to Have Significant Ties to al Qaeda]
* [http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=cache:ibAPp_72jHsJ:www.currenthistory.com/org_pdf_files/103/672/103_672_171.pdf+al-qaeda+marriott+hotel+bombing+indonesia Learning by Doing:Al Qaeda's Allies in Southeast Asia]
* [http://www.ciaonet.org/olj/cpc/cpc_oct03/cpc_oct03f.pdf Terrorism Perpetrated and Terrorists Apprehended]