<p>Umar Patek had a $1 million bounty on his head when authorities caught up with him Jan 25 in Abbottabad, the same town where Osama bin Laden was killed in a US commando attack four months later.<br /><br />Indonesia’s anti-terrorism chief Ansyaad Mbai said it did not appear to be a coincidence that they were in the same place.<br /><br />“It’s further evidence of the link between the Southeast Asian terror network and al-Qaeda,” he added, hours before the 41-year-old boarded an Indonesian plane sent to a Pakistani air force base.<br /><br />Patek touched down outside Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, on Thursday morning and was taken straight to a police detention center in the West Java town of Kelapa Dua.</p>
<p>Umar Patek had a $1 million bounty on his head when authorities caught up with him Jan 25 in Abbottabad, the same town where Osama bin Laden was killed in a US commando attack four months later.<br /><br />Indonesia’s anti-terrorism chief Ansyaad Mbai said it did not appear to be a coincidence that they were in the same place.<br /><br />“It’s further evidence of the link between the Southeast Asian terror network and al-Qaeda,” he added, hours before the 41-year-old boarded an Indonesian plane sent to a Pakistani air force base.<br /><br />Patek touched down outside Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, on Thursday morning and was taken straight to a police detention center in the West Java town of Kelapa Dua.</p>