A self-confessed participant in the Bali bombings, Amrozi, is to testify in the trial of an Indonesian Muslim cleric alleged to head a Southeast Asian militant network.
Abu Bakar Bashir has denied the existence of the network, Jemaah Islamiah, as well as involvement in any bombings including those in Bali's Kuta beach strip that killed more than 200 people last October.
Prosecutors have charged him with committing treason by leading Jemaah Islamiah and involvement in incidents ranging from a plot to kill President Megawati Sukarnoputri when she was vice president to bombings of churches in 2000.
Bashir has not been named as a suspect in the Bali case.
The preacher was asked on radio today whether he expected prosecutors to use Amrozi to link him to Jemaah Islamiah.
"There are efforts going that way but because nothing's there, no hole will be found," he said before the trial resumed.
"There is an order from outside forces to make me unpopular because America is afraid of my sermons," he said, adding he only know Amrozi as someone who once picked him up for a speech at an Islamic school in Indonesia.
Amrozi is charged with plotting terror acts and accused of buying explosives and a minivan that were made into a huge car bomb in Bali. He faces the death penalty if convicted.