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...have taken part in the plot. One of them is a man called Amrozi, who has confessed to transporting explosives to the site and was arrested a month after the bombings in his home village hundreds of miles from Bali on the island of Java. Another is Imam Samudra, allegedly one of the key planners of the attack, who was picked up on Nov. 21 after Indonesian police tracked his cell phone. TIME has discovered, however, that investigators believe the incident's real godfathers--those described by one Western intelligence source in the region as the "top tier...
...Amrozi was sent home and there opened a garage. Villagers say he was a changed man, always dressing in religious robes instead of the jeans he had previously favored. In 2000, police say, Amrozi was approached by Samudra for help in obtaining explosives for use in the conflict between Muslims and Christians then raging in the Indonesian city of Ambon. "I went to Surabaya and bought the materials," Amrozi later recounted...
...Among the 19 killed by the 15 bombs that went off in Jakarta on Dec. 24, 2000, were three of Hambali's own men. Regional intelligence officials believe that Mukhlas was intimately involved in conceiving and planning the Bali attack, although he appears to have delegated operational authority to Samudra...
...Iqbal, evidence suggests he was unlucky. After all, the bombmaking expertise of Imam Samudra, the alleged coordinator of the Bali bombing and the man who passed Iqbal the explosives, is questionable. During a wave of bombings across Indonesia that left 19 dead over Christmas 2000, in which Samudra said he played an instrumental role, three of the attackers died when their devices exploded prematurely. Even more telling is the story of the last bomber Samudra personally sent out on a mission before Bali: the hapless Taufik Abdul Halim. According to his own court testimony, Taufik was dispatched to a Jakarta...
...Could the same thing have happened in Paddy's? Very possibly, police investigators say. But police also say it is Samudra who, after his arrest, told them Iqbal was a suicide bomber. General I Made Mangku Pastika, head of the Bali investigation, thinks the apparent contradiction is easily resolved. He says Samudra is claiming Iqbal deliberately killed himself "in order to cover responsibility to the family." In other words, the man alleged to have played a key role in the massacre of nearly 200 people feels guilty that he may have also caused the death of a fellow terrorist...