(19 Oct 2002) VOICED BY Louise Bates
0000 Exterior of hospital
0004 Police standing outside hospital
0009 Mid shot of Abu Bakar Bashir in hospital
0017 Close-up of Bashir in hospital
0024 Doctor Umar Baiaja talking to other doctors
0030 Mid shot Bashir's lawyer at news conference
0035 Lawyer with arrest warrant
0040 Close-up arrest warrant
0044 SOUNDBITE (Bahasa Indonesia), Achmed Midan, Abu Bakar Bashir's lawyer
"We refused to sign the arrest warrant because the charges are weak and unfounded," Bashir's lawyer said.
0054 Wide shot of pro-Bashir students demonstrating outside hospital
0058 Demonstrators chanting
0105 Mid shot police
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STORYLINE
A day after the adoption of a tough new anti-terrorism decree, Indonesian police arrested the alleged leader of a militant Islamic group suspected in last week's Bali nightclub bombings.
Abu Bakar Bashir, 64, who has been in hospital since Friday with breathing problems, is under police guard at the main hospital in his hometown of Solo in the western part of Indonesia's main island of Java.
Indonesia's Defence Minister Matori Abdul Djalil said the cleric was linked to al-Qaida and that his right-hand man, known as Hambali, was behind many of the country's terrorist bombings.
VOICE-OVER:
0003 This is the hospital in Bashir's hometown of Solo, in Indonesia, where the alleged militant Islamic leader is under police guard.
0011 The 64-year-old, whose group is suspected of perpetrating last week's Bali bombings, has been in hospital since Friday with breathing problems.
0020 He was arrested a day after Indonesia adopted a tough new anti-terrorism decree.
0025 A doctor at the hospital said the cleric, who runs an Islamic school, was still weak.
0030 Bashir, who hasn't been named as a suspect in the Bali attacks, was arrested for his alleged connection with a spate of church bombings in which 19 people died.
0040 He denies involvement in those attacks, as well as the Bali bombings.
0044 (SOUNDBITE (Bahasa Indonesia), Achmed Midan, Abu Bakar Bashir's lawyer)
0047 "We refused to sign the arrest warrant because the charges are weak and unfounded," Bashir's lawyer told a news conference.
0054 Outside the hospital, the cleric's students protested against his arrest as riot police stood by.
0100 Indonesia's Defence Minister claims Bashir has links to al-Qaida, although he stopped short of accusing him of the Bali attacks.
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