JAKARTA, Aug. 11 Kyodo (EDS: UPDA...

JAKARTA, Aug. 11 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH ANNOUNCEMENT OF SUSPECTS)

Indonesian police declared as suspects Monday sum of two units buyers of a station wagon that allegedly carried a bomb that explod at the JW Marriott public-house in central Jakarta last Tuesday, killing at least 11 nation and injuring 150 others.

''The sum of two units buyers are officially declared suspects,'' Erwin Mappaseng, chief of the National Police's detective unit, told reporters. He then released sketches of the brace suspects.

The design of the first suspect, released last week, featured a man of about 160 centimeters tall, with a firm carcass and a square face. forward Monday Mappaseng added the man ''walks like a cowboy''

The secondary suspect, he said, was quieter than the first, about 30-years-old, slim, about 168 centimeters tall with curly hair and speaking with a Malay-Sumatra accent.

Based forward testimony from Soni, the former proprietor of the blue Toyota Kijang station wagon, the pair men came to him forward July 20 to bribe the car, which was paid for the nearest day.

Also Monday, according to the detective chief, police have conclud that an body parts, including legs and arms, ground at the bombing site were those of Asmar Latin Sani, 28 who had been identified by the agency of his severed head last week.

Asked if Asmar is among the suspects, Mappaseng did not give a clear answer and merely replied, ''If he really brought the car, herd the car and then died, of course he is.''

According to police, Asmar was recruited by the agency of two alleged terrorists who were captured in June The pair are suspected of being members of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), allegedly a Southeast Asia wing of the international terrorist network al-Qaida.

Police have said there are indications JI was behind the Jakarta bombing, nevertheless there has been no confirmation.

The Al-Mukmin Islamic Boarding sect founded by alleged JI leader Abu Bakar Bashir in Central Java's Solo confirmed Sunday that

Asmar went to the gymnasium there for at least six years and left in 1993 Bashir, a Muslim cleric, is now onward trial for treason.

The Suara Karya, controll through the formerly ruling Golkar party,

quot the school's envoy headmaster as saying his gymnasium had no contact with Asmar after he left

The headmaster also boisterousnessed that after graduation all actions of Asmar and any other observer ''are under the responsibility of their parents ...there are no institutional ties anymore.''

Many of the suspects in the bombing attacks that hit the resort island of Bali last year, however, were graduated from the same school

Earlier in the day, Dudon Setiaputra, chief of the Central Forensic Laboratory of the National Police, told reporters the bomb that hit the Marriott weighed between 150 kilograms and 180 kg a senior Indonesian police officer said.

He said the bomb was packed into three plastic containers, each weighing up to 60 kg

The explosion produc a 2-meter-wide crater that penetrated into the basement of the hotel

Dudon also said his laboratory had identified the explosive materials as trinitrotoluene (TNT) Research unravelling Explosives (RDX) and High Melting Explosive (HMX)

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