THE two top intelligence officials hastened into the waiting room at Soekarno-Hatta airport, last Saturday night. The Deputy Head of the State Intelligence Agency (BIN) As'at Said and Muchdi P.R., one of the deputies in that institution, were on an important assignment: departing to the United States to initiate discussions on Hambali. By coincidence, TEMPO met with the two officials who claimed "they had business involving Hambali."

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