[Kabar-indonesia] Guard arrested over Bali bomber's laptop

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Reuters 
September 1, 2006

Guard arrested over Bali bomber's laptop

Indonesian police have arrested a prison guard over the smuggling of a laptop 
for a man on death row for the 2002 Bali bombings.

The arrest comes after police revealed last month that Bali bomber Imam 
Samudra had used a laptop in his 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 
said. 

The prison guard's lawyer, Achmad Michdan, says he has been officially named 
a suspect. 

"He's accused of being an accessory to an act of terrorism," Mr Michdan said. 

Police say the laptop was bought by one of two computer experts who were 
arrested last month on suspicion of cyber terrorism. 

Samudra and two others - 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.

Twenty people were killed. 

Samudra, Amrozi and Gufron have since been transferred to an island prison 
off the southern coast of Java, 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. 

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