Bali bomber plotted another attack

JAKARTA, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- An Indonesian police official says a man on death row for the 2002 Bali bombings plotted another attack from his prison using a smuggled laptop computer.

Police Col. Petrus Golose of Indonesia's anti-terror task force testified that Imam Samudra, one of the accused in the Bali bombings that killed 202 people, plotted a repeat of that in Jakarta, reports The Times of London. He devised his plot using an Internet connection from his death cell. Samudra is to be executed by a firing squad.

Golose's disclosure points to the lax conditions in some Indonesian jails and the level of corruption among jail wardens, says the report.

Golose said the Web site for Samudra was created by one of several extremists with whom he communicated.

Two of his contacts were arrested last week in separate raids on Java, the report said. One of them, an Information Technology lecturer, is believed to have smuggled the computer to Samudra.

Samudra has published a book describing how to perpetrate credit card fraud to raise funds for terrorist attacks, the report said.