Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir formally denied in court today any involvement in the Bali and J W Marriott Hotel bombings, saying the attacks that killed 214 people ran counter to his principles.

Indonesian prosecutors today charged militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir with ordering his followers to launch a suicide attack on a Jakarta hotel last year.

Police have arrested the wife of one of Southeast Asia’s most wanted terror suspects and plan to charge her in connection with last year’s suicide bombing at the Marriott hotel in the Indonesian capital, police said today.

The US ambassador in Indonesia warned today that more terror attacks were likely to follow the Marriott Hotel bombing that killed 12 people in the capital Jakarta last week.