Aussie firm to produce film on Bali blast

Aussie firm to produce film on Bali blast

Agencies, Sydney, Australia

Australian production house Kennedy Miller announced plans on
Friday to dramatize the ground-breaking hunt for the Bali bombers
in a four-hour television feature.

A spokeswoman for Kennedy Miller said the mini-series, with
the working title Mango River, would focus on how the bombers who
killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, were tracked down.

The investigation that followed the bombing on the Indonesian
resort island in October 2002 has been praised as a landmark
example of international police cooperation in the fight against
terrorism.

Australian Federal Police provided forensic expertise while
Indonesian police under Gen. Made Pastika worked local contacts
to swiftly apprehended the al-Qaeda-linked Jamaah Islamiyah (JI)
members behind the attack.

Kennedy Miller said the script for the mini-series was still
being written and casting for the project had not yet begun.

JI, believed to be the Southeast Asian arm of Osama bin
Laden's al-Qaeda network, is suspected of carrying out the Bali
nightclub blasts that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.

Police and intelligence officials say JI, which seeks to
establish an Islamic state across much of Southeast Asia, has
also planned or carried out other attacks in the region.

On Friday, Malaysia's police intelligence chief said remnants
of the al Qaeda-linked JI are regrouping and planning more terror
attacks in Southeast Asia despite the arrest of their leaders.

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