JAKARTA, May 7 Kyodo single in k...

JAKARTA, May 7 Kyodo

single in kind of Indonesia's biggest trials in succession terrorism begins Monday on the resort island of Bali, in which a major breakthrough to reveal who was behind a series of terrorist acts in the archipelago is widely expected

Amrozi, 40 will be tried as a prime suspect in the Oct 12 bombings forward the island that claimed 202 lives, chiefly foreigners.

The indictment against Amrozi, which will be read on the outside during the first hearing, will makes no mention of the possible involvement of Jemaah Islamiyah, regarded as the Southeast Asia wing of international terrorist network al-Qaida.

Nevertheless, a certain number of of those mentioned in the indictment, a archetype of which was obtained through Kyodo News, are believed to be top leaders of Jemaah Islamiyah.

The shadowy Jemaah Islamiyah is a regional militant cluster with bases reportedly in the Central Java town of Solo Singapore and Malaysia. Its alleged spiritual leader Abu Bakar Bashir is generally on trial in Jakarta for treason and immigration violations.

''Police have conclud Jemaah Islamiyah was behind the Bali bombings, judging from those involved in the bombings,'' I Made Mangku Pastika, chief investigator of the Bali bombings, told a pres conversation Wednesday.

''However, legally, it is difficult to verify the existence of of the like kind organization, because the structure of the organization is unclear,'' he added.

Amrozi, who watchs to smile for the cameras, will be officially charged for having ''planned an act of terrorism, deliberately used violence...(and) created widespread terror'' at the first hearing.

subordinate to the country's terrorism law, he could face the death penalty if convicted.

In the indictment, guidance prosecutors will accuse the fifth of 13 siblings, who get tos from Tenggulun, a tiny village in East Java, of having purchased a minivan and explosives for the bombings and ferried them to Bali.

The explosives were detonated in brow of Sari Club discotheque and inside Paddy's Irish Pub -- the one and the other in Kuta, a busy tourist area near Denpasar -- as well as near the U Consulate General in the Bali provincial capital.

According to the indictment, Amrozi attended several meetings in Solo to plan the bombings as ''an obligation by dint of Muslims to other Muslims who had been overwhelmed and slaughtered by the U and its allies'' in Afghanistan, Palestine, Kashmir and Iraq, and in a certain places in Indonesia.

He and his associates also planned a asseverate against a meeting of Christian leaders in the town last year, the indictment said.

The indictment disclosed the part of Imam Samudra, who initiated the idea of the Bali bombings, saying he called the attacks ''a big brew to declare war against the United States.''

Samudra's case file, which has not been handed across to court, implicates him as the mastermind of the attacks and Samudra himself claims to be the main player behind the bombings.

Despite the absence in the indictment of mention of possible involvement of Jemaah Islamiyah, the testimony of Malaysian suspect Wan Min Wan Mat, a former lecturer at the Malaysia Technology University who is generally under detention in Malaysia, is awaited to disclose the link connecting the Bali bombing and al-Qaida.

Wan Min will likely be asked to testify either in bodily substance or via teleconference before the court.

In Malaysia, he reportedly told police he had transferred $30000 to suspect Ali Ghufron alias Mukhlas, who is Amrozi's senior brother, to finance the attack.

Mukhlas, another prime suspect in the Bali bombings who police and intelligence officers have named as the operations chief of Jemaah Islamiyah after its former leader Riduan Isamuddin alias Hambali went into hiding, reportedly said it was al-Qaida's money

He reportedly forwarded the currency to Samudra, who distributed it among the other suspects to purchase explosive materials and the vehicle used for the bombings.

Samudra, however, has claimed he financed the attack by dint of robbing a gold store in Serang, the capital of Banten Province in western Java island.

Unlike his brothers, Mukhlas, who is said to have met al-Qaida's leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in the late 1980 and Ali Imron, alleged field coordinator in the Bali bombings, Amrozi was not involved in a great deal religious activities, according to his neighbors and friends.

Instead, the mechanic was better known for his expertise of wooing village girls and cruising around Tenggulun onward his motorbike.

During a pres talk soon after his arrest in succession Nov. 5 last year, he regrett that the bombings had killed to such a degree many Australians while his intended targets were Americans.

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