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| Southeast Asia |
| Indon coppers looking for Amrozi's brothers... |
| 2002-11-12 |
| Indonesian police have named two brothers of a man who admitted involvement in the attack on Bali last month as additional suspects over the bombings. Police said that they were searching for the two men - Ali Imron and Ali Fauzi -after finding a cache of weapons hidden in East Java that the authorities believe the men buried. Major-General I Made Mangku Pastika, in charge of the Indonesian investigation into the Bali attack, said the men had been given the weapons by their brother and prime suspect, Amrozi. Knowing the way they do things in Indonesia — and learning more every day — I'd guess Amrozi admitted to giving them the weapons, but they'll deny receiving them, so there won't be enough evidence, certainly not enough for the Indon parliamentarians... Police found the stash of weapons which they believe were hidden by the suspects on Monday near the home of Amrozi, according to the Jakarta Post. Kompas daily reported that the police found at least five rifles, including two M-16s as well as two FN pistols, along with ammunition, packed into six plastic pipes. Police also said they had found TNT - used in at least one of the Bali bombs - at an apartment and hotel room in Denpasar, Bali, where Amrozi is alleged to have stayed before the attack. It sounds so... so... Islamic! Two other arrests were made on Monday. Police detained a former forest ranger known as Komarudin in Amrozi's home village of Tengallun in East Java whom they believe stored weapons and explosives for Amrozi. They also seized Amrozi's driver, a man named Tafsir. It sounds like the cops are taking it seriously, but the politicos are still trying to explain the whole thing away... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |