DENPASAR, Indonesia, Nov. 17 Kyodo ...

DENPASAR, Indonesia, Nov. 17 Kyodo

Indonesian police released sketches of six suspects in the Oct 12 bombing attacks onward Bali on Sunday, saying they are still hiding in ''sensitive locations'' in Indonesia.

The police updated earlier-released sketches of four of the six, while making public the sketches of the other sum of two units for the first time.

Chief investigator I Made Mangku Pastika said the group's leader appears to be Abdul Azis, 35 also known as Imam Samudra or by the agency of one of several other aliases.

Pastika said there is no evidence over and above linking the six or another detained suspect named Amrozi, 40 with the al-Qaida terrorist network or its alleged Southeast Asia network Jemaah Islamiyah.

Last month however, Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono mentioned the name of Imam Samudra as single of four Indonesian leaders of Jemaah Islamiyah.

Beside Azis, the other five suspects are known as Idris, 35 Dul Matin, 32 Muhammad Ali Imron, 30 Umar, 35 and another Umar, 35

Pastika said investigators believe that the men who actually assembled the bomb used in the Bali explosions are among this group

He also said the police are still searching for sum of two units of Amrozi's younger brothers, called Fauzi and Sumarno, for allegedly possessing weapons and ammunition base in a forest near Amrozi's house in the East Java provincial government of Lamongan.

Based in succession testimony from Amrozi, the motive for the bombings was retaliation against Americans, because they believe the United States is suppressing Muslims, especially in the Middle East.

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