The Indonesian police detectives are still working to find the house where the Australian Embassy bomb was made. National police chief General Dai Bachtiar said here on Saturday that the van used in the bombing had first been taken to houses West Java and then Banten and later Jakarta before it was used. "We have found the houses in West Java and Banten but we are still searching the house in Jakarta," he said. According to witnesses, he said, the house in West Java had been used, not for making the bomb, but only for storing the materials.
| Bet the neighbors were really happy about that... |
He said the police already had captured a man who was close to alleged bomb suspect Azahari. He said the man known by his initials as AAH had been named a suspect and confessed that Azahari had once stayed in his house and had kept four boxes and six bags of bomb materials in the home of his relatives. "The problem is that the suspect is not the perpetrator of the bombing," he said.
| Merely an accomplice, y'mean? |
Dai said the police had so far examined 79 persons and arrested 10 others in connection with the case. He said that four persons had been named suspects so far including AAH, and three others known by their initials UB, IS and TN, who were captured on charges of harboring Azahari and also involvement in the bomb plot. "We have also detained several people in Banten for investigation," he said. Dai added that the police could not as yet confirm how many people were in the van that carried the bomb. He also said he believed they got the bomb materials through smuggling. |