TIMELINE - Attacks and plots blamed on Jemaah Islamiah in Asia

(Reuters) - Bomb blasts that killed nine people and injured dozens at two Jakarta hotels may have been carried out by remnants of the Southeast Asian militant group Jemaah Islamiah, analysts said on Friday. Here is a timeline tracing major attacks and plots that have been blamed on the pan-Asian militant group since its formation.

1993 - Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir and Abdullah Sungkar found Jemaah Islamiah while in Malaysia. The two return to Indonesia after the fall of President Suharto in 1998.

1995 - Jemaah Islamiah operational chief Hambali is thought to be involved in a Jemaah Islamiah plot to bomb 11 U.S. commercial airliners in Asia, the U.S. State Department says in 2003.

Dec 30, 2000 - Five blasts in Manila kill 22 people. In 2009, three members of Philippines militant group the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) are sentenced to life imprisonment for the multiple bombings, said to have been carried out under instructions and with funding from Jemaah Islamiah leaders.

Dec 24, 2000 - Series of Christmas Eve blasts at Jakarta churches and elsewhere in the country kill 17 people and wound about 100. At first thought by some to have political motivations, these blasts are later tied to Jemaah Islamiah.

Dec 2001 - A Jemaah Islamiah plan to attack diplomatic missions including the U.S., Israeli and British embassies, is foiled by authorities in Singapore and more than a dozen suspected militants are arrested.

Oct 12, 2002 - Blasts on the tourist island of Bali kill 202 people, many of them foreign tourists, including 88 Australians. Jemaah Islamiah is blamed. The United States designates the group as a foreign terrorist organisation after the blasts. Three Jemaah Islamiah-linked militants are executed for the attacks in November 2008.

March 2003 - Two blasts at the airport and a ferry pier in Davao, a southern port city in the Philippines, strike weeks apart, killing 38 people in total. Jemaah Islamiah-linked militants are blamed.

Aug 5, 2003 - Bomb outside JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta kills 12 people, including a Dutchman, and wounds 150. Jemaah Islamiah is blamed.