Foreign bomb experts may role-play in Bali blast: BIN<\/p>\n
Muhammad Nafik, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
The State Intelligence Agency (BIN) said on Friday it believed
\nthat the devastating Bali bombings, which killed nearly 200
\npeople, involved highly-skilled foreign experts.<\/p>\n
"We are sure that foreign elements along with Indonesian
\nexperts or perpetrators were involved," BIN spokesman Muchyar
\nYara told The Jakarta Post.<\/p>\n
"As we know Indonesia has no such bomb experts with such
\nextraordinary expertise. They are extremely rare here."<\/p>\n
Muchyar said Indonesian experts were generally trained to make
\nbombs using one, two or three explosives. He could not identify
\nwhere the foreign bomb experts were from.<\/p>\n
National Police say the Oct. 12 explosions that ripped through
\nthe Sari nightclub on Bali's Kuta Beach tourist strip were packed
\nwith multiple explosives, among them TNT, RDX and HMX. Their
\nopinion seems to differ with Australian investigators.<\/p>\n
Muchyar said bombs made with multiple explosives were not
\nmanufactured by formal entities at home or overseas, saying they
\nmust have been made by foreign experts in cooperation with
\nIndonesians.<\/p>\n
"The bombs must have been assembled in the country. If they
\nwere made abroad, it is too risky to bring them here," he argued.<\/p>\n
"Their expertise is far above the average level of that of
\nprevious bombers who have attacked many places across the
\ncountry."<\/p>\n
His statement was echoed by Australian police who said on
\nFriday that expert bombers planned the blasts in Bali to maximize
\ncasualties.<\/p>\n
"The degree of coordination including the vehicle placement
\nreally reflected a high degree of planning and a high degree of
\nexpertise," Graham Ashton, the federal police officer leading
\nAustralian detectives investigating the bombings told AP in
\nCanberra.<\/p>\n
He said Australian investigators believe the blasts were
\ncaused by the explosive chlorate and that it was set off by a
\n"booster charge" such as TNT.<\/p>\n
Analysts here have also said the Bali bombers were highly-
\nskilled professionals, who could be Indonesians or foreign
\ncitizens.<\/p>\n
However, Muchyar would not speculate on whether the three men
\nwhose sketches were released by police on Wednesday were merely
\nthe perpetrators or the brains behind the Bali blasts.<\/p>\n
Political scientist Hermawan Sulistyo, who is assisting the
\nNational Police detectives investigating the blasts, said whether
\nthe three unidentified suspects were the masterminds or
\nperpetrators would remain unclear until they were arrested.<\/p>\n
"It's very hard to speculate if they are bomb experts or not.
\nWe don't know about them yet. We must arrest them first," he told
\nthe Post.<\/p>\n
Military observer Hasnan Habib shared Hermawan's view, saying
\nthe arrest of the suspects would help police investigators
\nunravel the mystery of the Bali bomb attacks.<\/p>\n
He said a very high level of expertise was required to build
\nthe bombs that went off in Bali and the bombers likely were
\nexperienced.<\/p>\n
Hasnan, Hermawan and Muchyar said that dangerous explosives
\nsuch as TNT and RDX were imported products banned for public
\nsale.<\/p>\n
Yet Muchyar said ordinary people could buy these explosives
\ndue to a lack of control by relevant authorities.<\/p>\n
According to a BIN report revealed recently, the Bali bombs
\nwere likely made of "SEMTEX explosives, a combination of RDX and
\nPETN materials".<\/p>\n
"These explosives are usually used in limited military
\noperations to demolish bridges, buildings or special business
\ninterests like open mining," it said.<\/p>\n
The explosions were believed to be controlled by a ADC
\ndetonator made in Korea or by a remote control or timer," the
\nreport said.<\/p>\n
It said explosives used by the Indonesian Military (TNI), were
\nonly available for use by the Army's combat engineers.<\/p>\n
The identification of those who use the explosives in
\nindustries such as mining would take longer, it said.<\/p>",
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