No sooner had Thai police arrested Mr Hambali than American agents whisked him off for interrogation.

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Malaysian authorities say Sufaat told them that Hambali asked him to host another man in that same apartment 8 months later.

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Mr Hambali's contact list might be extensive, but Indonesian authorities have arrested some 50 other members of his network, with contacts of their own.

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Now in prison, Malaysian authorities say he was Hambali's deputy there.

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He is said to have helped point the way to the capture of Hambali, the Indonesian terrorist responsible for the 2002 bombings of night clubs in Bali.

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Sufaat also did one more thing at Hambali's bidding.

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He might be of more use to the Indonesian police, who say Mr Hambali was in touch with terrorists in Indonesia, and transferred some money that may have been used to pay for the Marriott bombing.

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In one much-publicised incident in 2002, according to the American government, a local member of the Kuwaiti-based Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) helped an Indonesian fugitive, Riduan Isamuddin (alias Hambali), the mastermind behind the nightclub bombings in Bali.

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They caught a courier who had carried money between the two men, who led them to other messengers, one of whom brought them to a flat in Ayutthaya, about an hour's drive from Bangkok, where Mr Hambali was living with his wife.

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