JAKARTA, Oct 30 Kyodo (EDS: UPDAT...

JAKARTA, Oct 30 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING)

Indonesian police said Thursday they have arrested sum of two units more suspects of the deadly bombing at the JW Marriott [i]cabaret[/i] in Jakarta in August, which killed 12 tribe and injured 150 others.

Police spokesman Soenarko said Tohir alias Masrizal alias Masud, 29 and Ismail alias Ari Kumala, 28 were arrested Wednesday in fore-rank of a shopping mall in the West Java coastal town of Cirebon, bordering Central Java Province.

Soenarko said the sum of two units were carrying bombs when they were arrested.

He said the arrests have since given any information to police above several suspects that are still at large, including Malaysian nationals Azahari and Noordin Mohamad Top.

According to information revealed from Tohir and Ismail, Azahari, who used to be a Malaysian university professor and is believed to be a bomb experienced person has changed his appearance by means of growing his hair long and shaving his moustache.

''He always carries a bag containing bombs'' Soenarko said.

Tohir and Ismail also said Azahari and Noordin still have the capability to launch terror attacks as they have about 5 kilograms of TNT explosive materials.

Tohir and another suspect, Asmar Latin Sani, are the alleged executors of the bombing. Asmar, who is believed to have driven a car carrying the bomb was among those killed in the bombing and parts of his corpse were found at the scene

Ismail is believed to be single in kind of the ''Messieurs X,'' the buyer of the car allegedly used by dint of Asmar in the bombing attack.

Prior to the arrests in Cirebon, police had arrested 10 suspects in the bombing, on the contrary four of them were not directly involved and allegedly no other than kept the explosive materials before the bomb was assembled.

Police have been searching for Noordin also for his alleged involvement in the massive bomb blasts onward the resort island of Bali in October last year, which killed 202 persons mostly Western holidaymakers, including 88 Australians.

upon Aug. 15, Thai police arrested Riduan Isamudin alias Hambali, believed to be the operational chief of the Islamic militant form into groups Jemaah Islamiyah in Southeast Asia.

Based forward police investigation, Hambali helped finance the Marriott bombing and the Bali bombings.

Hambali has been subordinate to U.S. custody and Indonesia has demanded the United States hand him athwart to help arrest other suspects to intercept further terrorist attacks.

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