Police name two more suspects in Bali bombings

Police name two more suspects in Bali bombings

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta/Bali

The police have named two more suspects in the Oct. 12 Bali
blasts, though of all the suspects named so far two are assumed
to have died in the attack.

Chief investigator Insp. Gen. I Made Mangku Pastika said in
Jakarta on Monday that the two new suspects were identified as
Zulkifli Marzuki, a Malaysian citizen, and Jim, who is believed
to have been killed during the bombings.

The new suspects were named based on the results of the police
investigation into key suspect Ali Imron, who along with 14 other
people was arrested on a remote island off the coast of East
Kalimantan early last week.

Pastika said that according to Ali's statements to
interrogators, Zulkifli, a secretary of Jamaah Islamiyah (JI),
attended a meeting in Bangkok in February 2002 to discuss
possible bombings in Singapore and Indonesia.

Attending the meeting were a number of JI leaders, including
main Bali bombing suspects Hambali, who is still at large, Ali's
older brother Mukhlas and three Malaysians -- Azhari, Noordin
Moch. Top and Wan Min bin Wan Mat. Wan Min has been detained by
Malaysian authorities while the two other Malaysian suspects
remain at large.

"Ali also confessed that there was a close relation between
the Bali bombing perpetrators and the JI network," he said at the
ASEAN workshop on combating terrorism in Jakarta.

Pastika said that Ali also revealed that Jim drove the L-300
van that exploded outside the Sari Club.

"Ali Imron said that he drove the car to the T-junction of Jl.
Legian in Kuta and handed over it to Jim for the attack," Pastika
said.

He also said that based on Ali's account, neither Jim nor
Muhammad Iqbal, who is also believed to have died in the attack,
could be called suicide bombers because both were killed
unintentionally when the bombs went off.

So far, the police have arrested some 30 people who were
allegedly involved in the deadly blasts at Paddy's Cafe, the Sari
Club and Renon. The attacks killed almost 200 people and injured
more than 320 others.

Of the 30, five are being held as main suspects and 21 are
being held as accomplice. The status of the other four is
unclear. The police are still looking for nine other suspects,
including Dulmatin and Idris, who are believed to have detonated
the bombs with cellular phones.

The police are expected to resubmit to the prosecutor's office
in Denpasar the dossier on Amrozi this week. The dossier was
returned last week for administrative matters.

Meanwhile, Abdul Salam, one of the 15 people arrested in East
Kalimantan last week, was transferred from Denpasar on Monday
because there was insufficient evidence that he helped the
fugitives Ali and Hutomo Pamungkas.

The spokesman for the team investigating the Bali bombing,
Zainuri Lubis, said Abdul Salam was being transferred to East
Java, where the police would question him about allegations he
helped hide firearms belonging to Ali Imron.

He also said that Hamzah Baya, alias Sholeh, another suspect
in the bombing, had malaria and was being held in isolation at
Trijaya Hospital in Denpasar.

Zainuri said not all of the suspects from East Kalimantan knew
each other, and some of them met for the first time after they
were arrested.

He said the police would reconstruct the bombing after the
Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the National Police
Headquarters completed their forensic investigation into residue
found at a house on Jl. Menjangan in Denpasar that was rented by
the suspects.

Zainuri predicted that the results of the forensic
investigation would be released on Friday.

AFP field commander Scott Lee said tests on the residue would
help the police identify the type of explosives the bombers
used.