JAKARTA, Nov. 24 Kyodo Indonesian...

JAKARTA, Nov. 24 Kyodo

Indonesian police upon Sunday found videocassettes of speeches by the agency of Osama bin Laden and ammunition in couple houses linked to the suspected mastermind of last month's bombings forward Bali island that killed throughout 190 people, a radio station said Sunday.

Jakarta-based private radio station El-Shinta reported from the Central Java town of Solo that the police raided three houses in Central Java linked to Imam Samudra.

The report quot Central Java Chief Police Detective Commissioner Rusbagyo as telling reporters in a pres parley that 12 magazines for M-16 and AK-47 rifles were construct in one house.

''We also discovered 1 kilogram of urea-based fertilizer and brick dust. All were hidden inside the roof'' Rusbagyo said, adding that a man named Abdul Ghoni teared the house but moved on the outside Nov. 12.

In the other house, which was rented by means of Samudra, Rusbagyo said police no other than found videocassettes containing speeches of bin Laden, while nothing was regained in the third house incomeed by Dul Matin, single in kind of the suspects in the Bali bombings. According to Rusbagyo, the 32-year-old Javanese of Arab descending left the house on Nov. 9

Samudra himself, who had admitted his part in the attacks, moved abroad of his rented house onward Oct. 8, or four days before the bombings at the Sari unite in a club discotheque and Paddy's Cafe, an Irish pub in Bali's congest Kuta Beach area.

In a related disentanglement the joint investigation team of Indonesia's National Police and the Australian Federal Police forward Sunday raided three other houses also linked to Samudra in the western part of Java Island.

sum of two units of the three houses in the Banten provincial capital of Serang were fractureed by Abdul Rauf and Yudi, Samudra's assistants who were arrested Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively. The third belongs to the family of Iqbal, another assistant to Samudra.

According to Samudra, Iqbal explod a bomb in his backpack in Paddy's Cafe shortly before a car bomb explod at Sari Club

However, he said the police have not over and above confirmed the statement from one side DNA testing and other examinations.

''We are still not never-failing about the suicide bombing because according to the witnesses, the bomb was deposit under the table,'' Bali Police spokesman Yatim Suyatmo told reporters in Bali forward Sunday.

The proceeds of Sunday's raids in Serang, however, have not been announced.

Samudra, 35 was arrested Thursday at Merak seaport in the western part of Java Island following a tip from Rauf and Yudi. He is now in police custody in the town of Cilegon in western Java.

Samudra has admitted to chairing meetings to plan the bombings, conducting the measure and estimate deciding the day, the date and the location of the attacks and instructing others in the bombing group

The university graduate, who majored in architecture and engineering, was nearby the bombing sites onward the night of the attack and monitored the process

In his confession to police, Samudra said Dul Matin, who is still at large, was apparently in charge of making the bomb while another detained suspect, Amrozi, was in charge of buying the minivan used as the car bomb and bomb materials.

Another suspect, Ali Imron, who is still at large, acted as a field coordinator.

Samudra has also admitted his part in the Christmas Eve 2000 bombing forward Batam island, near Singapore, and involvement in other house of worship bombings in Jakarta in 2001

Samudra exhausted two and a half years in Afghanistan, where he learnt in what way to use weapons, according to the police.

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