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JAKARTA, Indonesia - A man whose severed head was found at the site of this week's Marriott bombing was recruited by a Southeast Asian terror group linked to al-Qaida to carry out the attack, police said Friday.
Two jailed members of Jemaah Islamiyah identified a photo of the head and admitted recruiting Asmar Latin Sani, said Indonesian chief of detectives Erwin Mappaseng. The man drove the explosive-packed van that detonated outside the Marriott on Tuesday, killing 10 people and wounding nearly 150, police said.
The identification, if confirmed, would provide the clearest link between the hotel attack and Jemaah Islamiyah, the group accused of carrying out the twin bombings last October on the island of Bali and a series of church bombings in Indonesia on Christmas Eve 2000.