DENPASAR, Indonesia, May 23 Kyodo ...

DENPASAR, Indonesia, May 23 Kyodo

A other key suspect in the bombings forward the resort island of Bali last year that claimed 202 lives, chiefly foreigners, will stand trial nearest month under the country's tough recent antiterrorism law, a court official said Friday.

I Made Karna, chief of the Denpasar District Court in the Bali provincial capital of Denpasar, announced that Imam Samudra will be formally charged at his first hearing in succession June 2.

Besides involvement in the Bali bombings onward Oct. 12 last year, Samudra is also suspected of involvement in the Christmas brink 2000 bombing of a house of god on Batam Island, near Singapore, and a robbery at a gold store in the West Java town of Serang.

Samudra's case file, handed athwart to the Denpasar District Court through government prosecutors on Tuesday, has implicated him as the mastermind of the Bali bombings, and he himself claims to be the main player behind the bombings.

Early this month Indonesia began its first trial below the new terrorism law of Amrozi, the prime suspect in the Bali bombings. Amrozi, 40 was charged with having ''planned an act of terrorism, deliberately using violence...(and) creating widespread terror.''

Several countries, including Australia and the United States, have blamed the bombings forward Jemaah Islamiyah, a Southeast Asian Islamic extremist network with links to the al-Qaida terrorist network.

Samudra has said Hambali, single in kind of Asia's most wanted men responsible for terror attacks across the region and the same of Jemaah Islamiyah's leaders, commanded bombing attacks across Indonesia in 2000 including the Christmas day [i]or[/i] night before [i]or[/i] preceding bombings.

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