Police question 100 terror suspects in Bali bombing probe
Indonesian police interrogated 100 detained terror suspects across the nation today, stepping up efforts to identify three suspected suicide bombers who attacked crowded restaurants on the resort island of Bali.
Investigators also said they received at least one phone call from a man who said he recognised one of the alleged bombers featured in grisly photos of the suspects’ severed heads.
“He identified one of the bombers,” said Abdul Madjid, the police chief commissioner in Solo, a city on the main island of Java.
Solo is the site of a hard-line Islamic boarding school attended by several notorious militants convicted in terror attacks.
Madjid said the man was only identified by one name, Gareng, and police were following up on the tip.
Three suicide bombers walked into packed restaurants in Bali on Saturday, killing 22 people and injuring 104. Photos of the suspects’ heads, cleanly severed from their bodies, have been circulating nationwide in newspapers and on TV programs.
Police said they questioned detained terror suspects, including two militants - Amrozi bin Nurhasyim and Imam Samudra – sentenced to death for their roles in the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, said Bali police chief Maj. Gen. I Made Mangku Pastika.
“We are also asking them whether they recognise these people or not. So far the detained terrorists do not know them,” Pastika said.
