The younger brother of terror suspect Hambali has been jailed for four years on charges of helping to finance last year’s bombing of the Marriott hotel in Jakarta.

A bomb attack near the Australian Embassy in Indonesia today in which at least seven people were killed may have been the work of a British-trained engineer who has eluded capture for nearly three years, Malaysian security officials said.

A British-born terror suspect was asked by senior al-Qaida figures in Afghanistan to recruit Australian Muslims to be trained in explosives and sniper techniques, a court heard today.

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.

A British-born terror suspect accused of plotting to bomb the Israeli embassy in Canberra told a journalist that US interests in Australia were legitimate terror targets, a court heard today.

Alleged members of an al-Qaida-linked extremist group jailed in Malaysia were routinely stripped naked, slapped, kicked and subjected to sexual abuse by police interrogators, according to a human rights document.

US Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said today that the overnight train bombings in Madrid will only reinforce the international resolve in fighting terrorism.

An Indonesian militant denied allegations he headed the al Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist group as his trial began today on charges that he hid a key suspect in the Bali bombings.

Asian and Pacific nation leaders today promised a crackdown against terrorist groups and tougher steps to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction.

AN Indonesian court yesterday sentenced to death the man who commanded the Bali nightclub bombings, wrapping up the trials of the four main accused ahead of the first anniversary of the atrocity.

The younger brother of Hambali, al-Qaida's suspected leader in Southeast Asia, has been arrested on immigration charges in Pakistan.

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

Prosecutors today demanded the death sentence for an Islamic militant accused of planning and financing last year’s bombings on the Indonesian resort island of Bali in which 202 people died.

The Bali nightclub bombings were supposed to take place on the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks, a key suspect told an Indonesian court today.

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.

Indonesian police have arrested nine people in connection with last week’s attack on the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta which killed 12 people and injured nearly 150, the national police chief said today.

Terror suspect Hambali was plotting an attack on an upcoming Asia-Pacific summit in Thailand to be attended by US President George W. Bush, it was disclosed today.

Thailand's prime minister has told how a suspicious cash transaction led to the arrest of Asia's most wanted man, terror suspect Hambali.

RIDUAN Isamuddin, also known as Hambali, is a 38-year-old Islamic scholar who was born in Indonesia's West Java province.

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.

Indonesian prosecutors charged another nine suspects today in connection with last year’s Bali nightclub bombings.

A KEY Bali bombing suspect admitted in court yesterday that he was the operational chief of the Southeast Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah, and said he knows Osama bin Laden “very well”.

A key Bali bomb suspect told an Indonesian court today that he was the operational chief of the regional terror group Jemaah Islamiyah, and said he knows Osama bin Laden “very well”.

A MILITANT Indonesian Muslim who has confessed to involvement in October’s bombings on Bali island said there was a “strong possibility” money from Osama bin Laden was used for the attacks, Time Magazine has reported.

Al QAIDA-LINKED terrorists wanted to attack the 2000 Olympics in Sydney but decided against it, a newspaper reported yesterday.

Al-Qaida-linked terrorists wanted to attack the 2000 Olympics in Sydney but decided against it, a newspaper has claimed.

THE man police say confessed to carrying out the Bali nightclub bombing has admitted to being associated with al-Qaida’s South-East Asian terror chief, Indonesian police said yesterday.

Malaysia has arrested three members of a suicide bomb squad involved in a thwarted terrorist plot to attack Western embassies in Singapore, officials said today.

One of two blasts in the Bali nightclub bombings came from a suicide bomber’s backpack – a sign Islamic militants in Indonesia are taking their cues from abroad, police say.

Police in Indonesia today released photos and sketches of six more suspects in last month’s bombings in Bali.

THE key suspect in the Bali nightclub attack that killed nearly 200 people said yesterday he was “delighted” that the bomb exploded.

INDONESIAN police yesterday said they expected to capture more accomplices following the arrest of a leading suspect in the Bali bombing the first major breakthrough in the inquiry.

Police in Indonesia today said it could be days before they can question an ailing Muslim cleric over a string of deadly church bombings and his alleged links to a regional terrorist network.

INVESTIGATORS probing last week’s Bali nightclub bombing said yesterday they are making progress though authorities still have to interrogate the ailing spiritual leader of a militant group suspected in the attack which left up to 30 Britons dead.

Investigators probing last week’s Bali nightclub bombing said today they are making progress though the authorities still have to interrogate the ailing spiritual leader of a militant group suspected in the attack which left 183 people dead.

A group of eight people are the prime suspects in the Bali nightclub bombing that killed almost 200 people, police in the tropical resort said today.

The Bali nightclub bombing that killed almost 200 people may push Indonesian leader Megawati Sukarnoputri off the political fence and put her fragile hold over the world’s biggest Muslim country in question.

Clues filtering in from around the world since at least 1994 foreshadowed Osama bin Laden’s plans to attack the US, and intelligence information from Italy, Israel and elsewhere before September 11 warned that a terrorist strike might be imminent.