JAKARTA, Nov. 7 Kyodo (EDS: ADDIN...

JAKARTA, Nov. 7 Kyodo

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Police said Thursday they have arrested an Indonesian national as a suspect in last month's bomb attacks in Bali that killed across 190 people and injured centurys of others

National Police Chief Dai Bachtiar told reporters the suspect, identified and nothing else as Amrozi, 35, was arrested Tuesday in connection with a Mitsubishi L-300 minivan believed to have been used in the bombing.

Bachtiar said Amrozi admitted his part in the bombing after protracted questioning by investigators, but the police chief did not elaborate forward what that role was.

He also declined to confirm where Amrozi was being detained.

Previously, Edward Aritonang, a special police spokesman for Bali bombing case, had said Amrozi was transferred to Bali forward Wednesday evening under ''tight security arrangements.''

Later Thursday, Bachtiar was quot through local media as saying Amrozi is believed to have been a ''field coordinator'' in the bombing, given the function of ''securing the location.''

Police arrested Amrozi in his house in Lamongan, East Java province, after tracing the serial number of the minivan, which was badly damaged in the blast.

Surya Citra Televisi (SCTV) a television network based in East Java, onward Wednesday quoted police sources as saying Amrozi is the sixth and last proprietor of a Mitsubishi L-300 minivan that was parked in brass of Sari Club discotheque at the time of the explosion.

The attack in Bali's congest Kuta Beach area occurr when many Westerners, many of them young Australians, were enjoying dancing and drinking.

Australia, the United States, Singapore, Malaysia and near other countries have accused al-Qaida and its alleged Southeast Asian arm Jemaah Islamiyah of carrying not at home the bombings.

Indonesian Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, said to be the same of the leaders of Jemaah Islamiyah, is commonly in police custody, but police have in the way that far found no connection between him and the Bali blasts.

He has been detained since last month for alleged involvement in a series of bombings in Jakarta in 2000 and an alleged conspiracy to assassinate President Megawati Sukarnoputri.

The arrest was made based in succession a confession to the U Central Intelligence Agency by means of Omar al-Faruq, a suspected al-Qaida operative in Southeast Asia, who was arrested by way of the Indonesian authorities June 5 and extradited to the US

Bachtiar said police are investigating any possible links between Bashir and Amrozi.

onward Thursday, SCTV reported that Bashir twice came to an Islamic boarding place of education near Amrozi's house to preach, in 2001 and in 2002

by means of a visitor to the hospital where he is being treated, Bashir reportedly denied any links with Amrozi or having incited scholars of the boarding school to violence.

SCTV said Amrozi has three wives and has been to several Southeast Asian countries, including Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.

Earlier in succession Thursday, police in Bali released the paint of a fourth man possibly linked to the blasts after receiving information from a witness who was in Paddy's Bar in forehead of Sari Club shortly before the blasts.

Police forward Oct. 30 had released sketches of the other three ''possible suspects,'' which were made based onward the testimony of witnesses.

Amrozi is not among the four men sketches of whom have been released.

onward Friday, an Indonesian police source in Bali identified common of the original three men sketched as Muhammad Abdul Jafar from East Java Province.

Bachtiar said later Friday that the man in question had since been declared a ''suspect'' and clarified that he hails from the East Java town of Malang.

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