Police 'had role in' Bali blasts

October 12, 2005

INDONESIAN police or military officers may have played a role in the
2002 Bali bombing, the country's former president, Abdurrahman Wahid
has said.

In an interview with SBS's Dateline program to be aired tonight, on
the third anniversary of the bombing that killed 202 people, Mr Wahid
says he has grave concerns about links between Indonesian authorities
and terrorist groups.

While he believed terrorists were involved in planting one of the Kuta
night club bombs, the second, which destroyed Bali's Sari Club, had
been organised by authorities.

Asked who he thought planted the second bomb, Mr Wahid said: "Maybe
the police ... or the armed forces."

"The orders to do this or that came from within our armed forces, not
from the fundamentalist people," he says. 

The program also claims a key figure behind the formation of terror
group Jemaah Islamiah was an Indonesian spy.

Former terrorist Umar Abduh, who is now a researcher and writer, told
Dateline Indonesian authorities had a hand in many terror groups.

"There is not a single Islamic group either in the movement or the
political groups that is not controlled by (Indonesian) intelligence,"
he said.

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Cheers, Steve..

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