Indonesian Police Yet to Name Group Behind Bali Blasts

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Indonesian Police Yet to Name Group Behind Bali Blasts

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Indonesian Police Chief Da'i Bachtiar said on Saturday that the interrogation of suspects in the Bali bombing remains to focus on individual suspects and has not directed to find links with any possible groups behind the attacks.

"We have not moved to investigate any possible group. We are still focusing on the individual suspects," Bachtiar was quotyed by Detikcom online news service as saying in Semarang, capital of the Central Java province.

He said the investigation would be very likely to find clues tothe involvement of certain groups, but "We'd be better waiting until the probe on Amrozi and other suspects are concluded."

Amrozi, 35, is believed to be the owner of a Mitsubishi L300 minivan used to explode a nightclub in Bali which killed more than184 people. Amrozi admitted Thursday that he used the vehicle to carry out the bombing.

"He was not very happy because Australians were killed instead of Americans," said Major-General Mangku Pastika, head of the Indonesian investigation team.

According to spokesman for the investigation team, Edward Aritonang, Amrozi had been taken to the bombing sites to reconstruct the killing.

The police have also arrested Silvester Tendean, who is chargedwith selling ammonium nitrate to Amrozi. Police found that the chemical was included in the explosive device used in the bombing.

"My client sold the chemical to Amrozi twice, the second in August. The volume was roughly at one ton," Tendean's lawyer Wijono Subagyo said.

Tendean and Amrozi are currently in Bali police custody.

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