Umar Patek allegedly built the bombs used in the suicide attacks on Bali nightclubs that killed 202 people, many of them Australian tourists. [break]
Patek, an Indonesian national, had a $1 million bounty on his head when he was captured in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad on Jan. 25, four months before Osama bin Laden was killed there in a U.S. commando attack.
Indonesia sent a plane Wednesday to pick up the 41-year-old Patek from a Pakistani air force base just outside the capital, Islamabad, said a Pakistani intelligence official. The extradition was confirmed by senior Pakistani security and government officials.
Patek arrived in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, on Thursday morning, an Indonesian anti-terrorism official said.
All the officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
Indonesian anti-terrorism chief Ansyaad Mbai told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Patek would stand trial in Indonesia.
Indonesian officials say Patek has confessed to playing a role in the 2002 Bali bombings, but have nevertheless expressed concern over whether they will be able to ensure a conviction.
One potential problem is that he may not be able to be tried under anti-terror laws passed after the Bali blasts because they cannot be applied retroactively.
Patek´s arrest in Abbottabad has raised questions over whether he was in the town to meet bin Laden, something that would challenge theories that the al-Qaida chief was cut of from his followers. U.S officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the issue, have said that his arrest in Abbottabad was a coincidence.
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