Australia warned today that terrorists could be planning another attack on its citizens in Indonesia, two days after a bomb killed nine people outside Canberra’s embassy in Jakarta.

A British-born terror suspect told Australian police that Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir was in charge of south-east Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah, a court heard today.

Community workers from throughout the country are due to stage a demonstration outside the Department of Employment today to protest against the Government’s cutbacks to the Jobs Initiative (JI).

INDONESIAN police have arrested 13 more people suspected of involvement in a wave of bombings across the country, a police spokesman said.

ALLEGED extremist leader Hambali was targeting US interests before he was captured, Thailand said as Indonesia said nine people have been arrested in connection with the attack on the Marriot Hotel in Jakarta.

THE man accused of being al-Qaida’s operations chief in South-east Asia was planning an attack on a summit in October attended by US President Bush when he was arrested, officials said yesterday.

The man accused of being al-Qaida’s operations chief in South-east Asia was planning an attack on a summit in October attended by US President Bush when he was arrested, officials said today.

Jakarta police seized documents last month showing terrorists were planning an attack in the area around the Marriott Hotel, where 14 people died yesterday in suicide car bombing.

TERRORISTS linked to al-Qaida were blamed for a suicide car bomb attack on a luxury hotel in the Indonesian capital, which killed at least 14 people and wounded 150 yesterday.

At least 13 people died today and 150 were injured when a suspected suicide bomber detonated a huge car bomb at the front of a luxury hotel in the Indonesian capital.

SOUTH-EAST Asian governments launched a massive security dragnet for a top Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) bomb-maker who bolted from a Philippine jail, as Western security partners warned of heightened threats to the region.

INDONESIAN police prepared a massive security operation involving 3,000 officers, including marksmen, on the eve of the first trial of a Bali bombing suspect.

The popular Thai holiday island of Phuket is at high risk of a terrorist attack according to information obtained by Australia, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said today.

Bali

Indonesia’s defence minister today blamed al-Qaida and its extremist allies for the massive bomb attack that killed more than 180 people at a nightclub on the resort island of Bali.