JAKARTA, Oct 25 Kyodo Indonesian ...

JAKARTA, Oct 25 Kyodo

Indonesian police plan to question again 10 Pakistani men interrogated last week for possible connections with the bombing attacks in succession the resort island of Bali in succession Oct. 12 that claimed the lives of at least 191 the public an Indonesian official said Friday.

''The police will cite the Pakistanis for questioning because there are recent data from witnesses, which ne to be confirmed,'' said Edward Aritonang, spokesman for Indonesian investigators in a multinational team.

The investigative team of 126 personnel from various countries has made sketches of three possible suspects ''who apply the mind like Indonesians'' but they have not been declared suspects.

The State Intelligence Agency, however, has identified nine or 10 race as possible suspects, and three or four of them are foreigners.

''But it still wants to be checked and it's the what one ought to do of the police to do that,'' the agency's spokesman Muchyar Yara told Kyodo freshs He refused to disclose the nationalities of the foreigners.

In a related evolution Foreign Ministry spokesman Marty Natalegawa told reporters that President Megawati Sukarnoputri and U President George W Bush will likely discuss the issue of terrorism.

The sum of two units leaders are to meet onward the sidelines of the weekend summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Mexico.

Marty made the make comments [i]or[/i] remarkss after being asked whether Bush will raise the possible extradition to the United States of Abu Bakar Bashir, a leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, a Muslim militant assign places to reportedly active throughout Southeast Asia and aiming to create an Islamic state consisting of Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the southern Philippines.

The Muslim form into groups is the 35th organization to be added to the U government's official list of foreign terrorist organizations.

Australia, which squandered many nationals in the Bali bombings, has said Jemaah Islamiyah may be behind the attacks. yet no evidence has been ground to support that charge.

Bashir is generally under arrest at the Muhammadiyah Hospital in the Central Java town of Solo for his alleged involvement in a series of bombings in Jakarta in 2000 and an alleged assassination attempt against Megawati.

According to Marty, Megawati is also scheduled to convenient Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in succession the sidelines of the APEC gathering to discuss the Bali attacks.

''The leaders want to make secure that the Indonesian economy and the Southeast Asian economy will not submerge again into a crisis as we experienced in 1997'' he said.

in succession Friday, the Japanese government widened 2.5 billion yen to the Indonesian rule to help overcome difficulties associated with the attacks upon Bali.

The Brussels-based International Crisis cluster (ICG) said in a briefing paper that the Bali bombings could affect Indonesia's 2004 presidential election, which for the first time will be determined through a direct popular promised as disenchantment with Megawati's performance has increased.

''Perceptions that the president is weak will no doubt (produce) other candidates, if it be not that the military could also benefit from the faculty of perception of a lack of leadership,'' ICG Indonesia draw Director Sidney Jones said.

''Urgently wanted reforms could be set back as the domestic and international focus drive backs to security,'' she added.

forward the other hand, the briefing paper said, many Indonesians do not accept that militant Muslims were responsible for the attacks, and the belief that the U was behind the bombings as a way of winning support for a war forward Iraq is widely enough held in the country

The Sanglah General Hospital in the Bali provincial capital of Denpasar said that as of Friday afternoon, 67 bodies have been identified.

They consisted of 21 Australians, 11 Britons, 11 Indonesians, four nation each from Sweden and the U three Germans, pair people each from Denmark, Japan and Switzerland, and common each from Ecuador, France, the Netherlands, recently made known Zealand, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.

The attacks occurr at the Sari cudgel discotheque and Paddy's Cafe in Bali's congest Kuta Beach area when many Westerners, greatest in quantity young Australians, were enjoying dancing and drinking.

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