Paul Toohey – East Timorese police have issued a wanted poster for a suspected Islamic State militant they believe has crossed into the country from the Indonesian province of West Timor.
The warning, issued on January 15, the day after the Jakarta attacks by ISIS militants, names the suspect as Fajar.
This may refer to Fajar Firdaus, who was sentenced to four and a half years prison in 2010 for sheltering a terrorist, Syaifudin Jaelani, who recruited suicide bombers for the 2009 JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton suicide attacks that killed seven people, including three Australians.
After the bombings, Syaifudin was killed along with Indonesia's most wanted terrorist, Noordin M Top, the Malaysian-born bombmaker and money man, thought to be Jemaah Islamliyah's top operative in the region.
The US State Department believes East Timor has no homegrown terror organisation, but its land border with West Timor is easily traversed – though East Timor is not considered an ideal place for terrorists to hide.