A radical Indonesian Muslim cleric that Singapore accuses of leading a terrorist network, has accused Washington of being behind a recent Philippine court's jailing of an Indonesian over weapons possession.

Abu Bakar Ba'asyir says a ten-year jail sentence on an Indonesian last week, is part of a grand scenario prepared by the United States to eliminate Muslim leaders and activists.

Agus Dwikarna was arrested at Manila airport in March along with two other Indonesians who have since been released.

He has also been accused of involvement in a Manila bomb blast in December, 2000 and an explosion that wounded the Philippine Ambassador to Indonesia in August the same year.

Ba'asyir, who heads the hardline Indonesian Mujahidin Council, has been named by Singapore's senior minister Lee Kuan Yew as one of the leaders of terrorist cells active in Indonesia.