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...while the alleged bombmaker's arrest was a huge breakthrough in the Bali case, investigators say he was probably a fairly small cog in a much larger machine. "If it was only Amrozi, that would be great," says Brigadier General Edward Aritonang, national police spokesman for the investigation team. "If we don't get the masterminds behind him, more bombs will...
...being questioned about a string of bombings during Christmas 2000 that left 18 dead, an alleged plot to assassinate President Megawati Sukarnoputri, and immigration violations. The police do acknowledge that the attack in the town of Kuta in Bali was organized and executed on a regional scale. According to Aritonang, funding for the car bomb is believed to have originated from Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia in cash and electronic transfers. (Amrozi bought the van in East Java but paid in a combination of Malaysian ringgit and Singaporean dollars.) Police say at least five terrorist cells were involved in planning...
...Aritonang estimates that much of the logistical planning for the Bali attack took place in the past two months. But according to intelligence experts, the directive that started the entire chain of events was issued at a mid-January meeting in southern Thailand. It was there that Southeast Asia's most wanted man, Riduan Isamuddin, the alleged head of operations for Jemaah Islamiah, harangued a group of key deputies. Hambali, as he is known, was enraged at the thwarting of his plan for a series of huge truck-bomb attacks in Singapore. He ordered a major shift in strategy: instead...
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