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Amrozi was “merely told to buy some materials.”
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By
Kazi Mahmoud, IOL Southeast Asia Correspondent
The
Bali blast suspect in police custody did not plant the devastating
bomb, his lawyers said on Saturday, November 16, 2002, acknowledging
however that he assisted the bombers in obtaining chemical materials
for the making of the bomb, news agencies reported.
The
lawyer of Amrozi, the key suspect in the October 12 bombings that
killed 190 people in two discotheques, also urged the Indonesian
police authorities to remain objective in their investigation.
"He
was merely told to buy some materials. He doesn't even know who made
the bombs," the lawyer, Suyanto, said in a statement issued at
the Bali Police Headquarters in Denpasar on Saturday, as quoted by
Antara.
The
statement by the lawyer confirms doubts expressed by observers and
analysts who earlier told IslamOnline that Amrozi was probably a
police informant or a member of the local intelligentsia.
The
coordinator for the Team of Muslim Lawyers assisting the suspect
reiterated that Amrozi did not plant the bombs. "Rather, he
mentioned Imam Samudera, also known as Khudama, alias Abdul Aziz, and
Idris as the ones who planted the bombs," Suyanto, one of the
lawyers said to the Jakarta Post.
Suyanto
asked the authorities to refrain from punishing the suspect too
harshly as he was not guilty of planting the bombs in Bali.
Asked
about Amrozi's mental and physical condition, Suyanto said his client
was doing fine. "God willing, he will continue to remain healthy
throughout the investigation and later in court," he added.
On
the other hand, Australian chief forensic investigator David Royds
confirmed here on Saturday that forensic evidence corroborated the
account given by Amrozi, the Indonesian who has confessed to helping
build the bomb.
Royds,
a forensic chemist, said police searching for explosive residue had
collected samples from crime scenes in Bali, including the safe houses
used by the Bali bombers, and they backed up Amrozi's account of the
bomb's manufacture.
Royds
told Australia's AAP news agency in Bali, as cited by DPA, that he did
not doubt Amrozi's story. "We are putting together a picture of
what happened. It's very nice to see it corroborated," he said.
Amrozi
told police that he traveled from the island of Java to Bali a week
before the Oct. 12 attack, bringing with him some components for the
bombs. He claims that others put the explosives together and carried
out the attack.
Meanwhile
the Hizb Tahrir group in Indonesia, a movement campaigning for the
establishment of an Islamic caliphate with a single leader as caliph,
said on Friday last that Amrozi was not responsible for the bombing of
the club in Bali. The group said to the local press that the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) had a hand in the bombing.
It
says the investigation is going out of control and did not corroborate
with earlier reports that the bomb that devastated a large area in
Bali was made of the C4 explosives that were not available to the
general public. Its leader added that only two or three countries
manufactured this material for such a major explosive that was even
more devastating than TNT.
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