JAKARTA (AFP) - Indonesian police issued sketches of their 10 most-wanted suspected extremists after last week's Australian embassy bombing and said they were closing on the owners of a van used in the attack.
The sketches, issued by police spokesman Inspector General Paiman, included Malaysian bomb experts Azahari Husin and Noordin Mohammad Top, wanted for the October 2002 Bali bombing and named as prime suspects in the embassy attack.
Earlier Wednesday addressing a parliamentary hearing, national police chief Da'i Bachtiar named two suspects in the embassy bombing, the Detikcom online news service reported.
The two, Hasan and Jabir alias Nanang, were believed to have been recruited by Noordin and were believed to have been willing to act as suicide bombers.
Bachtiar said police had taken DNA samples from their parents to determine whether they had taken part in the attack.
Nine Indonesians were killed in the embassy bombing, the third attack pinned on Islamic militants in two years in Indonesia after the Bali bombings in 2002 and a deadly blast last year at Jakarta's Marriott hotel.
The attacks have been blamed on the Al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah organisation.
Police say extremists could be planning a follow-up strike, prompting a massive security increase around potential targets including Western embassies and hotels.
Among the sketches issued by Paiman were two more Bali bombing suspects named Dulmatin and Umar alias Patek, and the alleged commander of Jemaah Islamiyah's armed wing, Zulkarnaen.
Paiman said that in addition to a reward of two billion rupiah (215,824 dollars) for the capture of Azahari and Noordin, police were offering 500 million rupiah for information leading to the capture of each of the other eight men.
The other men were named as Rois, Abu Dujana, Hasan, Ibrahim Nurdin and Zuhroni alias Oni.
Detective chief Suyitno Landung said the priority was still to capture Azarari and Noordin. He described the former as "a bomb designer" and the latter as "an expert in recruiting people to follow his path".
He said police were looking for three people known to have been in contact with the two Malaysians but who had not yet been captured. Investigations into the van used in the blast had eliminated several suspects.
Landung said detectives had traced three separate owners of the van and were looking into the identities of three men whom police say may have purchased the vehicle on August 6, just over a month before the attack.
"Based on the result of the investigation, we have found the fourth owner of the van and it was last purchased by three people but whether these three were among those who rode in the van still requires time to be determined," he said.