Did Baagil Bomb the Exchange?

Monday, September 25, 2000

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Who is he? Did his closeness to Wiranto make him a target?

Ali Baagil was just an obscure Islamic figure until the Jakarta Stock Exchange bombing. Then President Abdurrahman Wahid ordered his arrest in the same breath as Tommy Suharto’s. Baagil shot to national prominence. But who is he?

From Tegal in Central Java, Baagil is of Arab descent. The son of Alwi Baagil, he celebrated his 29^th birthday last week. Before Wahid’s fateful wo

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