Suspect Admits He Planted Bomb in Bali Attack

(New York Times) - The Indonesian police said Thursday that a man they arrested who is reportedly linked to an extremist Islamic group had admitted to planting the car bomb that blew up a Bali nightclub in a terror attack last month. The man, Amrozi, was affiliated with an Islamic boarding school called Al Islam, which is supported by the leading Indonesian extremist cleric, Abu Bakar Bashir, considered the intellectual leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, a radical Islamic group with links to Al Qaeda.


2002-11-08 00:00:00

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