The Jakarta Post, 2/2/2003 11:08:51 AM
Ba'asyir involved in Bali bombings: Police Chief
JAKARTA (JP): National Police Chief Gen. Da'i Bachtiar said on Saturday that cleric
Abu Bakar Ba'asyir took part in last year bombings in Bali, Antara reported.
He said that the conclusion came after the investigations of a number of suspects,
who currently being detained by the police.
Da'i said, without elaborating, that Ba'asyir attended several meetings with Bali
bombing suspects before and after the carnage.
But he added that police has yet found information about the detail of the meetings.
Ba'asyir has been in jail in October last year, only several days after the Bali
bombign, for alleged involvement in a series of bombings in the city in 2000 and a plot
to assasinate Megawati Soekarnoputri, who was then the country's vice president.
Ba'asyir has repeatedly denied involvement of the bombings.
His lawyer, M. Assegaf, said that police has accused Ba'asyir for the Bali bombings
since the beginning of the investigation.
He said Ba'asyir even denied having held meetings with some of the Bali bombing
suspects and had asked the police to confront him with the suspects.
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