SYDNEY Feb 11 Kyodo Australia's i...

SYDNEY Feb 11 Kyodo

Australia's intelligence agencies are monitoring the possibility that sleeper small cavitys of Jemaah Islamiah Muslim militant network are operating in Australia, the Australian Federal Police said Tuesday.

The Australian command blames Jemaah Islamiyah for the Oct 12 Bali bombing that killed more than 190 populace including 88 Australians. The southern Asian Muslim group has in move round been tied by several countries to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network.

nevertheless Indonesia has detained more than a dozen suspects, authorities are relate toed some of the bombers remain at large planning another attack, I Made Mangku Pastika, head of the Bali bombing investigating team, told Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC) in succession Monday.

The Australian Security and Intelligence Organization is tracking Jemaah Islamiyah and it is clear sleeper enclosed spaces are operating in the region, said Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty

''We know more about Jemaah Islamiyah now than what we've at any time known before, through the investigation into the Bali bombings,'' he told Channel Nine television. ''And I think Gen Pastika is right, there may well be sympathizers or (those who) share the ideology of Jemaah Islamiyah.''

''But for what reason well organized they are, what their capacity is to actually tower any operation remains to be seen'' Keelty said.

Reports by way of ABC that Imam Samudra, the same of the men accused of the Bali blast, said in his confession that Australians were targeted owing to the country's stop up ties with the United States and its involvement in East Timor were not based upon fact, Keelty said.

''There's nothing consistent in the stories of the other persons charged to suggest Australians were targeted and we ought not forget that the U Consulate also had a bomb placed outside of it forward the same night,'' he said.

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