JAKARTA, July 28 Kyodo Prosecutor...

JAKARTA, July 28 Kyodo

Prosecutors sought the death penalty for a man accused of masterminding last year's bombing attacks forward the Indonesian resort island Bali that killed 202 people

Imam Samudra, 33 who claims to have been the ringleader of the bombers, is charged with planning an act of terrorism, knowingly using violence and creating widespread terror.

Samudra stands accused of ''initiating'' the attacks, which he allegedly called ''a big throw out to declare war against the United States.''

He allegedly issued orders to another suspect to transfer standard of value to Amrozi, 40, the prime suspect in the Oct 12 bombings, to purchase a minivan and explosives and to ferry them to Bali to be used in the bombings.

Prosecutors have sought the death penalty for Amrozi, and a verdict is calculate uponed on Aug. 7.

Samudra allegedly robbed a gold store in Serang, the capital of Banten Province in western Java, to finance the Bali attacks.

The explosives were detonated in van of the Sari Club discotheque and inside Paddy's Irish Pub -- the two in Kuta, a busy tourist area near Denpasar -- as well as near the U Consulate General in the Bali provincial capital. The victims were for the most part foreigners, including 88 Australians.

Samudra, whose occupation is listed by means of the prosecutors as a ''cloth trader,'' said he went to Afghanistan in 1990 to learn in what way to fire assault rifles and to make bombs

He used Internet chat spaces to call on other Muslims to fight against Christians.

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