JAKARTA - Indonesian military authorities stepped up security of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono following threats to assassinate him and other senior officials if the three Bali bombers are executed, a military official said Tuesday. "We will prepare the security as well as possible, from planning to the implementation," Armed Forces Commander General Djoko Santoso was quoted as saying by the state-run Antara news agency.
Police were examining threats on a website contained in a letter purporting to be from the three Bali bombers calling for the death of the president, vice president and other government officials if the executions went ahead. The threatening letter apparently signed by the three bombers - Imam Samudra, Mukhlas and Amrozi - was written in Indonesian, English and Arabic and was carried on the website www.foznawarabbilkakbah.com.
But police doubted it could have come from the bombers because they are currently isolated in the maximum security prison on Nusakambangan Island, off the southern coast of central Java. Earlier, police said a telephone text message had been sent anonymously threatening to blow up the US and the Australian embassies in Jakarta if Amrozi and other Bali bombers were executed.
Police search at the embassy compounds failed to find any bombs. "Nothing is found. The location is safe," the Kompas.com news website quoted police as saying.
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JAKARTA - Indonesian military authorities stepped up security of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono following threats to assassinate him and other senior officials if the three Bali bombers are executed, a military official said Tuesday. "We will prepare the security as well as possible, from planning to the implementation," Armed Forces Commander General Djoko Santoso was quoted as saying by the state-run Antara news agency.
