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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