Makassar bomb case files submitted

Makassar bomb case files submitted

MAKASSAR, South Sulawesi: Police submitted to prosecutors on
Tuesday the third batch of case files on two suspects in the
bombing of a McDonald's outlet in the South Sulawesi capital,
Makassar, which killed three people and 11 others injured last
year.

Prosecutors received the case files of Kahar Mustafa and
Usman, as part of preparations for the suspects' trials.

South Sulawesi chief of detectives Sr. Cmr. Achmad Abdi said
that prosecutors had returned the case files of two other
suspects due to administrative flaws. Their files were being
revised, he said.

Police have, in total, arrested 19 suspects, and have
submitted the dossiers of eight to prosecutors.

However, four key suspects behind the December bombing, Agung
Abdul Hamid, Hizbullah Rasyid, Dahlan and Mirjal, remain at
large.

Police believe the Makassar bombing in December was related to
the Oct. 12 bombing in Bali. Suspects in both cases claimed to be
members of Jamaah Islamiyah, a regional organization the UN has
labeled a terrorist group. -- JP