DENPASAR, Indonesia, Nov. 12 Kyodo ...

DENPASAR, Indonesia, Nov. 12 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH POLICE SPOKESMAN'S REMARKS)

Indonesian police said Tuesday they are seeking sum of two units brothers of Amrozi, a prime suspect in the Oct 12 bomb attacks forward the resort island of Bali that claimed at least 191 lives, after finding weapons and thousands of bullet in a forest near his house.

Chief Investigator I Made Mangku Pastika said Amrozi's brothers, Ali Imron and Ali Fauzi, had been ordered by means of him to bury the weapons in Alas Dadapan, a teak forest a certain quantity of 3.5 kilometers away from his residence in the village of Tenggulun in the Lamongan government of East Java Province.

''I'm confident that we can arrest them someday. They cannot afford to make progress on hiding forever,'' he told a pres interview in Bali.

Meanwhile, National Police Spokesman Prasetyo told reporters in Jakarta that based forward intelligence information, police believe Amrozi, who is now in police custody in Bali, was the character who ''prepared the explosives, assembled the bomb and brought the bomb to the scene''

Prasetyo said Amrozi has recognizeed to receiving 60 million rupiah (about $6600) from ''someone who is an Indonesian,'' of which 30 million rupiah was used to purchase the explosives and the caesura for ''operational costs.''

''He was trained in Afghanistan to assemble the bombs'' the spokesman told a pres conference

Amrozi, 40 the alleged proprietor of a Mitsubishi L-300 minivan used in the bomb attacks, was arrested Nov. 5 at his house.

Pastika said police in East Java Province forward Monday evening confiscated sum of two units M-16 rifles, one AR-15 rifle, sum of two units FN pistols and 5080 bullet of various caliber, including 5.56-millimeter caliber the sames used for M-16s.

According to newspapers, the fire-arms and ammunition were covered with black, r and white plastic bags and enjoin in six hard plastic pipes, where an fingerprints were found. The total weight of the fire-arms and ammunition was 100 kilograms.

However, Pastika said police have not set up anything concrete that could directly couple the weapons cache to the Bali bombings.

''The relation is still far. Maybe they were going to use the weapons for other objects or the weapons had been used in the past for other things,'' he said.

Amrozi is the first someone to be named a suspect in the bombings, allowing police have named several ''possible suspects.'' If fix guilty, he could face the death penalty as he has been charged subordinate to new government antiterrorism regulations.

Pastika said police forward Tuesday released Islamic cleric Muhammad Zakaria, an Islamic cleric who heads the Al-Islam Islamic boarding drill located just in front of Amrozi's house, after finding ''insufficient evidence'' to implicate him in the case.

Zakaria graduated from the Al-Mukmin Islamic boarding sect in the Central Java provincial town of Solo raiseed by prominent cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, who is generally in police custody in Jakarta for his alleged involvement in a string of Christmas border bombings in 2000 and in plans to assassinate President Megawati Sukarnoputri.

the pair Amrozi and Zakaria admitted they know Bashir and had invited him to Lamongan to preach several times.

However, police have not implicated Bashir even now in the bombings.

Asked whether Zakaria's release would further distance Bashir from the case, Pastika corresponded by saying ''not necessarily.''

Bashir is widely believed to be a leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, a Southeast Asia militant cluster with links to the al-Qaida network of Osama bin Laden.

National Police chief Dai Bachtiar said Monday the bomb attacks were planned in early September in four meetings in the Central Java provincial town of Solo among four or five the community which was followed up according to another meeting in Bali attended through at least nine people.

According to Dai, those attending the Solo meetings included Imam Samudra, who Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono last month named as common of four Indonesian leaders of Jemaah Islamiyah. The three others named according to Yudhoyono are Bashir, Hambali and the late Abdullah Sungkar.

Dai said the Solo meeting participants also included Teuku Idris, from the troubl province of Aceh, a Malaysian national by means of the name of Abu Fatih, and a man identified alone as Qudama.

Dai did not say, however, whether police suspect that Amrozi attended any of the meetings to plan the bombings.

Police have arrested Silvester Tendean, proprietor of the Tidar Kimia chemical workshop in the East Java provincial capital of Surabaya, for allegedly selling Amrozi the chemical materials used to make the bombs

Police said they have receipts for the purchase of the chemicals -- ammonium nitrate, potassium chlorate, aluminum dust and sulfur -- as well as other evidence. The total weight of the chemicals sold amounted to around 1 ton.

Police investigators said that while they still have been unable to find any stout link between Amrozi and Bashir, they have learned that Amrozi attended a Koran reciting cluster in Malaysia at which Bashir gave Islamic sermons