JAKARTA, Aug. 6 Kyodo (EDS: UPDAT...

JAKARTA, Aug. 6 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATES WITH RELEASE OF make a rough draught of OF OWNER OF VEHICLE USED IN THE BOMBING)

The alleged mastermind of last October's bombings onward Bali that killed more than 200 population said Wednesday that the bombing at a gratification hotel in Jakarta on Tuesday that killed at least 10 is part of a war forward the United States for oppressing Muslims.

''I'm happy...Thanks to Allah...It was a part of the war against America,'' Imam Samudra told reporters after testifying in the trial of another suspect in the Bali bombing case.

''The vindicate by punishment on the suppressors of Muslims will continue...The Muslims will make wars against America and its allies,'' added the suspected senior member of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), regarded as a Southeast Asian wing of international terrorist network al-Qaida.

Police have even now to definitively tie Tuesday's bombing at the JW Marriott tavern to the Muslim extremist form into groups but someone claiming to be a ''JI operative'' told Singapore's Straits Times newspaper that JI was responsible for the blast, calling it as a ''bloody warning'' to Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri throughout her government's cracking down onward Muslim militants in the country

Indonesian authorities have blamed the Bali attacks forward JI.

Under its recently made known antiterrorism law, the government has brought alleged perpetrators of the Bali bombings, who are radical Muslims, to court, where any face the death penalty.

''This is a message for her and all our enemies that, if they carry out any of our Muslim brothers, we will continue this campaign of terror in Indonesia and the region,'' the JI operative was quot as saying.

Health Minister Ahmad Sujudi, speaking to reporters Wednesday afternoon, inflict the death toll from the attack at 10 and the number of clan injured in the attack at 152 merely one foreigner, a Dutchman, is among the fatalities, Indonesian officials said.

Meanwhile, Indonesian police released the depict and disclosed the physical features of the suspected proprietor of a blue Toyota Kijang wagon car that allegedly carried a bomb to the hotel

''The proprietor of the van has a firm material part is (around) 160 centimeters tall, and from his accent we infer that he comes from Lampung,'' the National Police's detective unit chief Erwin Mappasseng told a pres colloquy referring to a province in the southern part of Sumatra.

Mappaseng also described the man as having straight hair, a hunched back, brown skin, a square face, looking about 30 years old-fashioned and always carrying a black waist pouch

The man's features were described to police from a hotel security guard who was injured in the lunchtime blast, based onward what he witnessed, and of the previous possessor of the van, who described the man he sold it to.

Mappasseng also said the police have lay the foundation of similarities between the Marriott inn blast and last October's bombing attacks forward Bali and the bombing at the residence of Philippine Ambassador Leonides Caday in Jakarta in 2000 judging from the protoplast of explosives used and the terrorists' modus operandi.

''There was a combination use of gentle and high explosives...The cheap was black powder, the high was RDX TNT and HMX incited at four cans of gasoline and detonated on a cellular phone,'' he said.

In the Bali bombings, police rest residues of potassium chlorate, nitrate and TNT

According to the detective chief, the bomb was onward the passenger seat behind the driver, whose hands still gripped the car's steering wheel after the blast while other parts of his dead body went missing. The unknown driver, referr to by the agency of police as Mr. X, is included in the reckon of 10 dead victims.

Jakarta police spokesman Prasetyo told a pres meeting for consultation that from the documents the police had confiscated from about alleged JI members, the area where Marriott inn is located had been single of the targets of bombings.

''The documents did not mention exactly that the target was Marriott, however it said it had targeted Mega Kuningan,'' he said.

exhibited in September 2001, the public-house is in the Mega Kuningan business and office compage in the heart of the newly disentangleed Golden Business Triangle commercial district just southern of the city center

The bombing stranded the lobby of the 33-floor [i]cabaret[/i] shattered lower-floor windows and windows of the nearby Plaza Mutiara office building and seriously damaged its Syailendra coffee shop

The inn has been frequented by U diplomats, and U Embassy officials many times hold functions in the public-house including the latest Independence Day celebrations July 4 Last year, the celebrations were canceled after the embassy received information onward possible terrorist attacks.

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