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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...
...Indonesian police say they are currently hunting between six and 10 other suspects for the Bali blasts and expect to make more arrests soon. (Two of Amrozi's younger brothers?he has 13 siblings?are being sought by police on suspicion of involvement in buying the chemicals used in the bomb.) How many militants are swept up in the widening investigation and the vigor with which they are prosecuted will be a signpost of whether the Indonesian authorities, until now regarded as the laggards in Southeast Asia's war on terror, have really changed direction. "I think the danger...
...Indonesian police remain oddly reluctant to directly accuse Jemaah Islamiah of being behind the blast: Abubakar himself has not been charged with any crime related to the attack in Bali, although he is 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...
...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...
...According to sources familiar with an FBI report of Jabarah's interrogation, details of his testimony?including the dramatic order by Hambali to target bars and nightclubs?were passed on by U.S. officials to all Southeast Asian governments in August, a full two months before the Bali attack...