Posted on 11/11/2002 2:45:25 PM PST by knighthawk
THE devastating Bali bomb attack cost less than $14,000 to stage, according to Indonesian police who yesterday detained a fourth suspect in connection with the rapidly accelerating investigation.
Chief of the investigating team General Made Mangku Pastika revealed the cost of the bombing was between 60million and 70 million rupiah - $12,000 and $14,000.
General Pastika described the attack as a "low-cost, high-tech operation".
"It was a very sharp strategy," he said. The money for the operation had been collected from several sources, but principally came in the form of Malaysian ringgits.
Meanwhile, another man from Tenggulun in East Java, the village where confessed bomber Amrozi was arrested last week, was hauled in for questioning over the Bali attack and detained.
Sources have confirmed to The Australian that the Al Islam school in Tenggulun, now a prime focus of the investigation, is also funded largely with Malaysian ringgits. Controversial Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir visited Tenggulun regularly, on Amrozi's invitation, and villagers speak of visits by Asia's most wanted terrorist, Riduan Isamudin - otherwise known as Hambali.
Police say the fourth detained suspect, Komarudin, gave logistical support to the 10-man bomb-making operation and say they found large quantities of chemicals bought from nearby Surabaya, which Amrozi had asked him to store.
Despite seizures of 500kg of potential bomb-making chemicals from houses near Amrozi's workshop, it has emerged that an estimated additional 700kg he allegedly bought remain unaccounted for.
He has admitted to police that about 100kg were stored in the boarding house in Denpasar where the bomb that killed 190 people was assembled.
Police are also looking for a man known as Zawawi, allegedly the "bombmaker", who kept a manual on bomb making in his home in Nganguk, in East Java, and who has fled to Saudi Arabia.
The hunt also continues for two of Amrozi's brothers, Gufron and Ali Imron, who have both fled from Tenggulun village and the Al Islam school, where they taught and worshipped. The spiritual leader of the school, Mohammed Zakaria, remains in a police cell in Bali.
Indonesian police for the first time publicly connected the Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir with the listed terrorist organisation Jemaah Islamiah, and confirmed the detained suspect Amrozi was a follower of the cleric, who is now in police detention in Jakarta.
Was a Fuel-Air booster used?
Does anyone know what the OKC ingredients really were? I doubt ANFO was really (exclusively) used.
The sulphur I can understand, but what would the aluminum and chlorate be used for in that part of the world that 220lb + purchases would not raise suspicion?
Good question, let me know if you find out.
Whilst I was searching I found this from our US Dept of Treasury:
"However, the completion of the portion of the project that relates to AN has been delayed. A court-approved discovery agreement in the Oklahoma City bombing trial restricted ATF’s participation in any tests involving more than 50 pounds ofAN in any improvised explosive devices. Compliance with this court-approved agreement has constrained ATF from participating in tests involving more than 50 pounds of AN to determine the survivability and retrievability of taggants in large AN explosions. As a result, the Dipole Might project is approximately 2 years behind schedule regarding AN testing."
http://www.atf.treas.gov/pub/treas_pub/taggant/97/
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