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saved byArne Løining on 2007-10-30

  • INDONESIAN police or military officers may have played a role in the 2002 Bali bombing, the country's former president, Abdurrahman Wahid has said.
  • Asked who he thought planted the second bomb, Mr Wahid said: "Maybe the police ... or the armed forces."



  • "The orders to do this or that came from within our armed forces, not from the fundamentalist people," he says.



    The program also claims a key figure behind the formation of terror group Jemaah Islamiah was an Indonesian spy.



    Former terrorist Umar Abduh, who is now a researcher and writer, told Dateline Indonesian authorities had a hand in many terror groups.



    "There is not a single Islamic group either in the movement or the political groups that is not controlled by (Indonesian) intelligence,"

  • "This is a strategy of depopulating an area and when an area has been depopulated – both becoming refugees or becoming paramilitary fighters – then that is the time when they can invest their money in major resource exploitation there," he said.
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