Dossiers of 8 suspects completed

DENPASAR, Bali: Bali Police deputy chief Brig. Gen. Herman Hidayat handed over the dossiers of eight suspects in the Bali bombings to the prosecutor's office on Monday.

The dossiers are on Hernianto, Budi Wibowo, M. Nadjib Nawawi, Herlambang, Makmuri, Musyafak aka Abdul Hamid, Bambang Setiono aka Syaiful Suroso and Masykur Abdul Kadir.

Most of them have been charged with willfully helping, assisting and protecting terrorist and withholding information on terrorism. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.

So far, the police have handed over dossiers on 15 suspects, including that of Amrozi and Imam Samudra, to the prosecutor's office.

"Hopefully, we will be able to hand over the dossiers of two other main suspects, Ali Imron and Mubarok, next week," Edy Kusumawijaya said

Meanwhile, Abdul Aziz, alias Imam Samudra, said on Monday that he would retract his confession on the involvement of the alleged spiritual leader of Jamaah Islamiyah, Abu Bakar Ba'asyir's, in the attacks.

"Imam Samudra is very concerned that the confession might endanger the life of an innocent man, in this case Ustadz Abu Bakar Ba'asyir. Imam had specifically told me that he would retract his confession," Samudra's main lawyer, Qadhar Faisal, said here on Monday. --JP