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Tipster claims to know Bali bomber
Associated Press
Published October 6, 2005
BALI, Indonesia - Police pursued a tip Wednesday from a caller claiming that one of the latest Bali suicide bombers studied on an Indonesian island known for having hard-line Islamic schools.
It was one of the few possible leads announced since police started circulating nationwide photographs of the three bombers' severed heads, recovered from the attacks Saturday on crowded tourist-resort restaurants. The blasts killed 22 and injured 104.
The tipster called police in Solo, a city on the main island of Java. He identified one of the bombers by name and said he had studied in the area, home to an radical Islamic boarding school attended by several militants convicted in previous terror attacks, said Abdul Madjid, Solo's police chief commissioner. He gave no further information.
Saturday's attacks put Southeast Asian nations on high alert, with hundreds of thousands of troops on standby and tightened security on beaches and borders.
The al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiya was emerging as the key suspect in Saturday's attacks.
In a sign of the tense atmosphere, bomb disposal squads and hazardous materials experts rushed Wednesday to the U.S., British, Australian, French and Russian embassies in Malaysia after receiving packages threatening retaliation for perceived injustices against the Muslim world, police said. The parcels were a hoax.
[Last modified October 6, 2005, 01:15:08]
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