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Indonesian police sources say they found Azahari's hideout after identifying the three suicide bombers who killed 20 people in Bali on Oct. 1. A massive surveillance operation ensued, trailing scores of suspects with links to the dead bombers. One of those suspects, a 27-year-old Indonesian who calls himself Yayha Antoni, emerged from the Batu house the day before Azahari died. Having tapped his mobile phone, police believed he was going to meet Azahari's chief accomplice, fellow Malaysian Noordin Mohamad Top. Yayha apparently sensed he was being tailed and tried to detonate his vest but was arrested...
...police adage that most murders are solved in the first 24 hours is true, the investigation into the suicide bombings that killed 23 in Bali on Oct. 1 may be in deep trouble. Four weeks after the attacks, police and security officials say they are no closer to identifying the three men who carried out the attacks and are still clueless about what kind of explosives were used. Five arrests have been made, but all those detained have now been cleared and released...
...contrast, four weeks after the Oct.12, 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202, police had already made several key arrests and the first detentions in a sweep that eventually netted all but a few of the plotters. Why the big difference? For one thing, the original Bali attacks?as well as the subsequent bombings of Jakarta's Australian embassy and JW Marriott hotel?involved vehicles, whose metal frames absorbed telltale traces of the explosives used. The most recent bombs were set off by individuals carrying backpacks filled with explosives, which left only tiny amounts of residue for police to analyze, says...
...Years Ago in TIME Last week's suicide attacks on the Indonesian resort island of Bali were a horrible echo of the far more destructive BALI BOMBINGS of Oct. 12, 2002. The blasts, which killed 202 people, were the worst terrorist attack in the country's history; for the idyllic island, they were also a tragic loss of innocence...
...refuses to be quantified, measured, reckoned, even estimated. We may be able to count the lives lost and shattered, compute the cost in dollars and cents, but we will never be able to add up the psychic and emotional toll of what happened that night ... Bali was a symbol for most of us: of better times, of a future where we might lie in the sun for a few days or weeks, of a blissful state that has now vanished. We lost not only a resort and nearly 200 lives and our sense of safety amid a world...