He says the operations were funded through Bahrun Naim, an Indonesian who was arrested in 2011 and spent one year in jail for illegal possession of weapons before going to Syria to fight alongside the group.
Five men attacked a Starbucks cafe and a traffic police booth with hand-made bombs, guns and suicide belts, killing two people — a Canadian and an Indonesian — and injuring 20. The attackers also were killed, either by their suicide vests or by police.
Haiti identified one of the five suspects as Sunakim. Hewho was once sentenced to seven years in prison for his involvement in the military-style terrorist training in Aceh. He was released early.
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