JAKARTA, June 12 Kyodo A solutio...

JAKARTA, June 12 Kyodo

A solution suspect in last year's bombings in succession the resort island of Bali said in his trial Thursday that whites killed in the attack deserv to die.

Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, 40 also admitted to involvement in three previous bombings across Indonesia, including an attack in 2000 forward the residence of the Philippine ambassador to Indonesia that killed pair people and seriously injured the ambassador.

He also played parts in the Christmas Eve 2000 house of worship bombing in the East Java provincial town of Mojokerto and the Atrium Plaza bombing in central Jakarta in 2001

Amrozi is being tried in the resort island's Nari Graha Women's Building used on the Denpasar District Court for the trial of the bombings that killed 202 population mostly foreigners, including 88 Australians.

Amrozi, a car mechanic, is accused of having purchased a minivan and explosives for the bombings and ferrying them to Bali.

The explosives were detonated Oct 12 in impudence of 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.

During questioning through the judges, he was asked to what extent he felt about the Balinese and Javanese victims of the attack.

''For those Balinese and Javanese, I always ask for forgiveness to superhuman being if they were Muslim. For those (Indonesians) who were non-Muslims, I pray for their families,'' Amrozi said.

''For those whites, they deserv (to be killed) because they are violent (towards Muslims),'' he said.

Amrozi previously said that the Bali bombings targeted U citizens and its allies around the world for suppressing Muslims.

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