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Lydia's Newsbulletin
12-11-2002 Morning Edition

This bulletin is dedicated to the memory of Lydia Klijn, for more than 20
years active member of the Dutch Section of Amnesty International and
responsible for the "Indonesia & Oost-Timor Bulletin", who passed away
on  1-6-2001


Two More Arrested in Bali Probe                                 1
Chief Bali bomb suspect a student of Bashir-police              2
Jakarta court says arrest of cleric Bashir legal                2
Bali bombing suspects using false names, aliases: police        3
Police swoop on home village of Bali bomb suspect               4
Aceh rebels say Indonesian military fires mortars               5
Jakarta vows no end to Aceh siege until peace pact signed       6
Timor witnesses tell commission of atrocities                   8


Two More Arrested in Bali Probe

TENGGULUN, Indonesia, Nov. 11 (AP) - Indonesian police have arrested two more
men in connection with the Bali bombing, one of whom officers suspect stored
explosives and weapons for a suspect already in custody, police and witnesses
said Monday.

Officers raided a house early Monday in Tenggulun village and seized a former
forest ranger identified only as Komarudin while he was asleep, said a
detective who asked not to be named.

Nothing incriminating was found at the house, but police suspect the man
helped the prime suspect already in custody, who has been identifed only as
Amrozi.

``We suspect he stored Amrozi's weapons and explosives at his house,'' the
detective said.

Amrozi, arrested last week in Tenggulun, has admitted owning a minivan that
was packed with explosives and blew up outside a packed nightclub on Bali on
Oct. 12, killing nearly 200 people, mostly foreign tourists.

Police have raided dozens of homes in Tenggulun after they traced the vehicle
used in the blast to the poverty-stricken village on Java island.

Late Sunday night, officers arrested a man identified as Tafsir in the
village, witnesses said. An officer who asked not to be named said the
suspect was believed to be Amrozi's driver. The officer did not elaborate,
and it was unclear whether Tafsir had driven the vehicle used in the
bombings. Many Indonesians use only one name.

Police are searching for a link between Amrozi and Jemaah Islamiyah, an
al-Qaida-linked terror group whose alleged aim is to create a pan-Islamic
state in Southeast Asia.

Foreign intelligence officials and some Indonesian officials have accused the
group of masterminding the Bali bombing, the worst terror attack since the
Sept. 11 attacks last year.

Indonesian police officials have said Indonesians trained in Afghanistan or
Libya were likely behind the bombing, citing the planning and expertise that
were required.

Maj. Gen. I Made Mangku Pastika, the top investigator in the case, was not
immediately available for comment on the latest arrests.

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Chief Bali bomb suspect a student of Bashir-police

BALI, Indonesia, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Indonesia police said on Monday their
chief suspect over the Bali bomb blasts, a man who has confessed to
involvement in the attacks, was a student of detained Muslim cleric Abu Bakar
Bashir.

Made Mangku Pastika, head of the multinational investigation into the Bali
attacks, told a news conference on the resort island that Bashir was also a
co-founder of the Jemaah Islamiah militant Muslim network in Malaysia.

That marks the first time Indonesia has tied Bashir to Jemaah Islamiah, a
Southeast Asian group that has been linked to al Qaeda.

"Abu Bakar Bashir is a major preacher who has many students. One of his
students is Amrozi," said Pastika, referring to the Indonesian suspect who is
under detention in Bali.

He said Amrozi had admitted to bringing Bashir several times to an Islamic
school at his village in East Java.

"Amrozi worked in Malaysia and he was a participant in the sermons, conducted
by Abu Bakar Bashir who is one of the founders of Jemaah Islamiah in
Malaysia," Pastika said.

Bashir has repeatedly denied any links with Jemaah Islamiah or any wrongdoing.

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Jakarta court says arrest of cleric Bashir legal

JAKARTA, Nov 11 (Reuters) - An Indonesian court said on Monday the arrest of
militant Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir was legal, a boost for the police
case against him.

"We reject the request of the plaintiff and order that the detention be
continued," Tjaroko Imam Widodadi, judge at the South Jakarta Court, said in
his ruling.

Police have been holding the 64-year-old Bashir in Jakarta over a series of
church bombings in Indonesia on Christmas Eve in 2000 and a plot to kill
President Megawati Sukarnoputri, but not last month's bomb attacks on Bali
island.

Bashir's legal team had argued that the police case was built entirely on the
testimony of one self-confessed member of al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden's
militant network. Police had said the case rested on far more than that.

In Bali, police said earlier that their chief suspect in the bomb attacks on
the resort island was a student of Bashir. Police said Bashir was a
co-founder of the Jemaah Islamiah militant Muslim network in Malaysia. Jemaah
Islamiah has been linked to al Qaeda.

Bashir has repeatedly denied having any links to Jemaah Islamiah and any
wrongdoing.

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Asia Pulse/Antara
November  11, 2002

Bali bombing suspects using false names, aliases: police

JAKARTA,

   The State Police chief claimed that Bali bomb suspects from Hambali's group
purposely set out to deceive authorities by using false names and different
aliases to leave an impression that they did not know each other.

   "We keep comparing different documents which may be related to Hambali's
group," General Da'i Bachtiar told reporters here Sunday evening.

   Bachtiar made the remarks in connection with the current police investigation
on the bombing incident in Bali on last October 12.

   He said his side obtained the names of the suspects from security authorities
in Malaysia and Singapore, who also said they had been deceived by Hambali's