Police to charge Bali bomb suspects
Indonesian police are to charge three suspected militants over the Bali restaurant bombings under an anti-terror law that carries the death penalty, they said today.
Officers were questioning the three on Bali after bringing them to the resort island from Semarang on neighbouring Java island with their feet and hands chained and heads covered by a sheet.
Bali police spokesman Lt Col Antonius Reniban said they had seized notebooks indicating the man had been planning more attacks, and planned to charge them under the anti-terror law for “assisting the perpetrators of a bombing”.
He said the men were arrested in Semarang last week, but declined to give details of their alleged roles in the October 1 triple suicide attacks at crowded restaurants which killed 20 people and wounded 100 others.
Last week, police shot dead a Malaysian militant alleged to have helped plan the blasts.
Azahari bin Husin, believed to be a leader of the al Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah terror group, was tracked down after police said they had identified two of the three bombers who carried out the attacks.
The anti-terror law was rushed through parliament after bombings on Bali in 2002 which killed 202 people, most of them foreign tourists.
Prosecutors have since used it to convict scores of militants, including three sentenced to death over the 2002 attacks.
