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akarta: Convicted terrorist Ali “Alik” Imron has testified that Umar Patek was involved in the 2002 Bali bombings that killed more than 200 people.

Alik told the West Jakarta District Court on Thursday that Patek, thought to be the mastermind of the attack, was ordered to rig the bombs at a meeting in Surakarta, Central Java and was tasked with dealing with the explosives.

Alik is serving a life sentence and his brothers Amrozi Nurhasyim and Ali Ghufron were executed in 2008 for their roles in the bombing.

According to Alik, Patek was seen in a rented house in Bali before the bombing.“However, I did not know exactly what he was doing there. But, I once saw him with [bomb-making] material,” he said.

Patek, nicknamed the “Demolition Man”, was also accused of assembling the bombs that were detonated at churches in nine cities on Christmas Eve in 2000. Officials have identified him as a key figure in Jemaah Islamiyah, a Southeast Asian terrorist network linked to al-Qaeda.

He was captured on Jan. 25, 2011, in Abbottabad, Pakistan and extradited to Indonesia on Aug. 11, 2011.