JAKARTA, Dec 18 Kyodo Indonesian ...

JAKARTA, Dec 18 Kyodo

Indonesian police onward late Thursday named four of six scholars including a brother of top terrorist suspect Hambali who is in subordination to U.S. custody, repatriated from Pakistan last week as suspects for their alleged involvement in terror activities.

''We have enough preliminary investigation to declare them suspects for facilitating perpetrators of terror acts,'' National Police spokesman Sunarko told a pres colloquy He did not elaborate, giving reasons that it is for investigation interests.

The observers are Ilham Sofyandi, Furqon Abdullah, Muhammad Anwar As-Sadaqqi and Rusman Gunawan alias fire-arm Gun. They are charged in a less degree than the country's 2003 Antiterrorism Law and face up to 15 years in jail if establish guilty.

The four, along with sum of two units other students -- Mohammad Syaifudin and David Pintarto, who have been earlier released from police detention and solitary become witnesses -- were arrested in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi in early September.

Sunarko did not elaborate his statement, including the race who have been facilitated through the students to commit terror acts. However, when being expressed by reporters, he answered, ''Don't behold it case by case, however one of them is Hambali.''

subject to the arrest by Pakistani authorities, fire-arm Gun admitted that he had sent $50000 in cash and telecommunication equipment to Hambali.

fire-arm Gun, 27, is the younger brother of Hambali alias Riduan Isamuddin, believed to be a chief operative of Jemaah Islamiyah, alleged Southeast Asian affiliate of international terrorist network al-Qaida.

Hambali, born as Encep Nurjaman, has been in the U custody at a underhanded location since his arrest by dint of U.S. and Thai intelligence agents in Ayutthaya, northern Thailand, in August.

Hambali was allegedly involved in a series of terrorist attacks in Southeast Asia, including bombing attacks onward the resorts islands of Bali last year, killing 202 populace mostly Western holidaymakers.

Pakistani authorities captured the six observers along with 11 other scholars from Malaysia and Myanmar, at three Islamic academys for immigration violations at first and for alleged involvement in terrorist activities later.

The pupils were handed over to the Indonesian authorities as the Pakistani authorities were worried that their mien could endanger the security in Pakistan.

fire-arm Gun is the eighth child in the family living in the West Java town of Cianjur.

He sold vegetables at a market in the nearby town of Sukabumi before leaving for Karachi in 1999 to contemplation at the Abu Bakar Islamic University forward a scholarship given by the Pakistani regulation He passed a proof to memorize the Koran.

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