Explosives used in bid on Musharraf 'same' as Bali<\/p>\n
Reuters, Lahore, Pakistan<\/p>\n
Explosives used in an attempt to assassinate Pakistani President
\nGen. Pervez Musharraf a week ago were the same type as those used
\nin the Bali bombings, Pakistani intelligence sources said on
\nSunday.<\/p>\n
American intelligence agencies also warned Pakistan after the
\nHSBC Bank blast in Istanbul last month that foreign terrorists
\nwould try to enter Pakistan to carry out attacks, the sources,
\nwho did not want to be identified, told Reuters.<\/p>\n
The sources confirmed a report in the Pakistani newspaper The
\nNews that said C4 plastic explosive was used to blow up a bridge
\nin Rawalpindi, near Islamabad, just after Musharraf's motorcade
\nhad passed last Sunday.<\/p>\n
Police say the Bali bombings last year, in which 202 people
\nwere killed, was the work of an al-Qaeda-linked Southeast Asian
\nmilitant network. Investigators said C4 plastic explosive was
\nused in one of the bombings which ripped through a nightspot.<\/p>\n
Musharraf told Reuters in an interview last week after the
\nassassination attempt that al-Qaeda and their local collaborators
\nwere at the front of the queue of those who wished to kill him.<\/p>\n
The News quoted one of its sources as saying that the attack
\non Musharraf was the first in which C4 explosives had been used
\nin an attack in Pakistan.<\/p>\n
\"We just know that C4 is now in the possession of terrorists
\nin the country, but in what quantity is the subject of a
\nnationwide probe,\" an official told the paper.<\/p>\n
The intelligence officials who spoke to Reuters said U.S.
\nintelligence had warned Pakistan after the Istanbul bombing that
\n14 suspects from Egypt, Sudan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and
\nKenya would try to enter Pakistan to carry out attacks.<\/p>\n
The sources said a few had already entered the country and
\nPakistani intelligence agencies were trying to track them down.<\/p>\n
The News quoted sources as saying that security agencies were
\nalso \"intensely following\" an intelligence tip that local
\noperatives of a radical pro al-Qaeda Sunni Muslim group went
\nunderground in Rawalpindi just before the assassination bid.<\/p>\n
The paper said initial investigations had strengthened the
\nview that U.S.-supplied jammers installed in Musharraf's armored
\nMercedes had delayed electronic signals used to detonate the
\nexplosives.<\/p>\n
The paper said five separate lots of explosives in
\ninterconnected pouches, each weighing 10 kg (22 pounds), had been
\nattached to horizontal bars on the bridge.<\/p>",
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