At the Marriott Hotel bomb site in Jakarta, investigators have been sifting for clues into the attack, but suspicion has already fallen on regional terror network, Jemaah Islamiah because of a mounting series of parallels to the Bali bombings. A senior Indonesian officer believes police have identified a suspect who expressed his desire to launch a suicide attack in a coded e-mail.

Presenter/Interviewer: Rafael Epstein

Speakers: Brigadier Goris Mere, senior police officer in Bali bombing investigation

Rafael Epstein: Brigadier Gories Mere was one of the most senior police officers involved in the investigation into the Bali bombings. Familiar with Jemaah Islamiah's tactics, Gories Mere says the Jakarta bombing is almost certainly a JI attack.

Gories Mere: The modus operandi, the suicide bomb, we can mention that these are the activity of JI.

Rafael Epstein: So you think it is likely that it was JI in Jakarta?

Gories Mere: Yeah, yeah, yes.

Rafael Epstein: He said suspects in the Bali attacks sent emails to each other, speaking of their wish to participate in suicide bombings, using the code words "they want to get married". Now he says, six weeks ago police intercepted an email from Asmal in which he expressed the same desire "to get married". They suspect that man was at the wheel of the vehicle that detonated at the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta.

Gories Mere: The letters, the email interception that mention he wants "to marry as soon as possible". "Marry" is a word, a code word of the JI, "I want to plant a bomb", a suicide bomb, he wants to make a suicide bomb.

Rafael Epstein: So this is an email you intercepted from someone in JI?

Gories Mere: Yeah, yeah, yes.

Rafael Epstein: Who was the email from?

Gories Mere: The suspect [inaudible] Asmal.

Rafael Epstein: Speaking on his mobile phone, while at the crime scene, Brigadier Gories Mere says Asmal's family will be contacted and police officers will take DNA samples from them and their relatives. Police will then try to match that to body parts, including a hand, found with the wrecked car.

Gories Mere: And then now I send our men to his parents and his family in Wanwan [phonetic] province to take a DNA off his parents and then we bring it back to compare with the hand found on the crime scene and also with the blood we found on the crime scene, to compare if the DNA is identical as Asmal who has sent an email message to other people on another day.