Indonesian police arrest terror suspects

Indonesian police say they have arrested 10 suspected members of Jemaah Islamiyah, the al Qaeda-linked militant Islamic group blamed for last year's Bali bombings.

The men were suspected of being involved in a series of church bombings across Indonesia on Christmas Eve 2000 which left 19 people dead, as well as five smaller earlier bombings, Chief Detective Lieutenant General Erwin Mapasseng said.

He said the men's "controller" at the time of the 2000 bombings was Riduan Isamuddin, or Hambali, the alleged ex-operations chief of Jemaah Islamiyah, who is still at large and believed to be Osama bin Laden's point man in Southeast Asia.

Hambali is alleged to have ordered other members of Jemaah Islamiyah to carry out the bombings of two nightclubs on Bali island on October 12 in which 202 people, mostly foreign tourists, died.