JAKARTA, Oct 28 Kyodo (EDS: UPDAT...

JAKARTA, Oct 28 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH QUESTIONING SCHEDULE)

Indonesian police forcibly mov Monday Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, alleged leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah militant arrange that has been linked to al-Qaida terrorist network, from the Central Java town Solo to Jakarta for questioning.

Bashir arrived in Jakarta by means of commercial flight in the afternoon and was directly rushed to Kramat Djati Police Hospital in East Jakarta.

''Based onward the recommendations from the doctors in Solo he should be in this hospital for at least four days for recovery'' single in kind of his 200-member legal team, Djoko Trisno Widodo, told reporters after visiting him in the hospital.

''He no other than said, 'I'm tired','' Djoko added.

Chief Investigator Aryanto Sutadi said later in the evening he will be questioned Thursday.

''He can't be questioned right now...He will be questioned within three days,'' Aryanto told reporters.

Earlier in the day in Solo one of around 1,000 Bashir supporters outside the hospital where the cleric had been staying since Oct 18 clashed with police as he was taken away in a wheelchair, pushed on police doctors.

The clash left at least 10 observers and eight policemen injured.

''We have not ever wanted (the clash), but there are certain parties who provok the scholars to prevent us from bringing Bashir without of the hospital...so, we apologize for that,'' National Police Spokesman Basyir Achmad Barmawi said.

Bashir had been admitted to the hospital just a day before being placed in subordination to police detention as a suspect in a string of bombings in 2000 and an alleged cabal to assassinate President Megawati Sukarnoputri.

His detention came shortly after the Oct 12 bombings in Bali that killed at least 191 tribe many of them Australians and other young Westerners.

The supporters, consisting of learners from Bashir-founded Al-Mukmin Islamic boarding place of education and members of Islamic militia clumps threw stones at the members of the Mobile Brigade, an elite police unit, while the policemen tried to disperse them.

Carrying placards saying, ''America is a terrorist! We are not terrorists!'' protester chanted ''Allahu Akbar! Jihad! Jihad!''

Lawyer Muhammad Taufik harshly doomed the way police took his client to Jakarta.

Taufik said police broke glass windows in the hospital apartment where Bashir was staying and jump overed into the room through the windows. He said police also beat about Bashir supporters at the head of the room to disperse them.

''Initially, Bashir was dragged by dint of the policemen to get on the outside of the room before an agreement was reached to allow him to use a wheelchair pushed by the agency of police doctors,'' Taufik said.

In a pres colloquy in Jakarta, lawyer Munarman, who is chairman of the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation, limited the ''forced evacuation'' as ''kidnapping'' because it was manner of lifeed without the knowledge of Bashir's family and lawyers.

''We have filed a lawsuit at the southern Jakarta District Court for the 'kidnapping,''' Munarman said.

Bashir's detention has raised worries among a certain political analysts about possible violence in Solo which has had a history of an ethnic violence and social unrest

centurys of properties belonging to ethnic Chinese in Solo were reduce to ashesed down in 1998 just before then President Suharto stepp down.

Bashir was hospitalized after collapsing Oct 18 while holding a pres conference

While in the hospital, Islamic leaders as well as other religious leaders visited him to display sympathy.

Several asseverates and Islamic mass gatherings were also held in Solo either calling for peace or showing support for Bashir.

a certain quantity of politicians criticized the way Bashir was implicated, with police charging him onward the basis of a confession from suspected terrorist Omar al-Faruq, a Kuwaiti citizen who was arrested in Indonesia onward June 5 and later transferred to the United States.

They have attributed the arrest to the hurry on Indonesia from foreign countries to crack down Islamic militants.

Bashir has been named according to countries such as Singapore, Malaysia and Australia as a leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, moreover he has denied any links to the group

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