http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/JAK330003.htm 01 Sept 2006 Reuters JAKARTA, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Indonesian police have arrested a prison guard over the smuggling of a laptop for a man on death row for the 2002 Bali bombings, police and his lawyer said on Friday. The arrest came after police revealed last month that Bali bomber Imam Samudra had used a laptop in his Bali prison cell to chat via the Internet with co-conspirators about fund-raising for attacks through online credit card fraud. "He has been detained for seven days. Investigators are looking into evidence and information from witnesses," national police spokesman Bambang Kuncoko told reporters. The prison guard's lawyer, Achmad Michdan, said he had been officially named a suspect. "He's accused of being an accessory to an act of terrorism," Michdan said. Police said the laptop was bought by one of two computer experts who were arrested last month on suspicion of "cyber terrorism". Samudra and two other militants, Amrozi and Ali Gufron, have been on death row for more than two years after courts convicted them of playing leading roles in the October 2002 nightclub bombings in Bali that killed 202 people, most of them tourists. While they were in prison, suicide bombings ripped through three restaurants on the tourist island of Bali last October, killing 20 people. Samudra, Gufron and Amrozi have since been transferred to an island prison off the southern coast of Java island, where they await execution. The attorney-general's office last month delayed the executions of the three men, citing a judicial review by defence lawyers. The bombings in Bali have been blamed on the Southeast Asian Islamic militant group, Jemaah Islamiah, which authorities say has links with Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. _________________________________ HITBSecConf2006 - Malaysia The largest network security event in Asia 32 internationally renowned speakers 7 tracks of hands-on technical training sessions. Register now: http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2006kl/
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