Homeland Security

DATE=09/11/04

TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT

TITLE=INDONESIA BOMB INVESTIGATION - S & L

NUMBER=2-318908

BYLINE=TIM JOHNSTON

DATELINE=JAKARTA

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HEADLINE: Indonesian police identify embassy bomb vehicle

INTRO: Indonesian police have shown dramatic security camera footage of suicide bombers driving up to the Australian Embassy in Jakarta just before they detonated their deadly bomb Thursday. Nine people died and some 180 were injured in the blast, which the police believe was the work of Islamic extremists. From Jakarta, Tim Johnston sent this report.

TEXT: Police say they are progressing quickly with their investigation into Thursday's suicide bombing of the Australian Embassy.

Officials in Jakarta Saturday showed video footage of the van used to deliver the bomb.

/// OPT/// The video - taken by security cameras fixed to buildings next door and opposite the Australian Embassy - shows a white delivery van driving up one side of the road before doing a U-turn and then moving towards the embassy. The cameras then show a huge blast jolting passers-by and throwing up a huge cloud of dust and debris. /// END OPT ///

/// OPT /// Police appealed Saturday for owners or renters of white Daihatsu vehicles like the one shown the footage to tell them if their vans were missing. /// END OPT ///

Investigators have also identified a rented house in northwest Jakarta where the bomb was assembled.

Indonesia's police chief, General Da'i Bachtiar, says his operation is urgent.

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He says that unless the group is caught, it is going to attack again. The problem is to work out how, when and where.

Investigators say all the evidence so far points to the Islamic militant group Jemaah Islamiyah, which was also responsible for the Bali nightclub bombing two years ago and other attacks.

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At least nine people were killed in Thursday's blast, all of them believed to be Indonesian. But police say that one or perhaps two of the dead may have been the bombers. (signed)

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