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Amrozi must have felt safe. The man who, according to Indonesian police, has confessed to building the explosive that killed 191 revelers in Bali on Oct. 12, was hundreds of miles away at the time of the conflagration, sitting in a friend's house in a tiny hamlet in East Java watching a boxing match on television. And although on June 15 he bought the white Mitsubishi L-300 van that would be used to carry the main bomb, Amrozi was careful to change the registration six times. He had even filed off the registration numbers engraved on the engine...
...Amrozi was overconfident. Detectives in Bali carefully examined the remains of numerous charred vehicles until they found the wreckage most heavily impregnated with chemicals used to make the bomb: the Mitsubishi L-300. Daubing acid on the abraded surface of the engine block, forensic experts teased out the numbers that were etched in the metal. Once they had the registration of the van, investigators were on a path that led to Amrozi's home village of Tenggulun, about 200 kilometers west of the port city of Surabaya...
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...Bali Blast: A Hot Trail
...self-taught auto mechanic and tinkerer who ran a workshop in his backyard; those skills would have been invaluable in assembling and transporting a bomb. He was also known to repair mobile phones; police believe such a handset may have been used to set off the bomb in Bali. He was a former hell-raiser who had turned devout in recent years. And, above all, Amrozi was a man with strong ties to Islamic radicals suspected of involvement in terrorist activities. His eldest brother co-founded the village's religious school, which then forged connections with an institution originated...