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Police check if suicide bombers behind Bali blasts
BALI, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesian police investigating coordinated bomb attacks on crowded restaurants on Indonesia's resort island of Bali said on Sunday they were searching for clues to whether suicide bombers were to blame. The nearly simultaneous blasts that also wounded 102 people came nearly three years after militants linked to al Qaeda bombed nightclubs in Bali, killing 202 people, most of them foreign tourists. Bali's police chief Made Mangku Pastika visited one of the three blast sites, at Raja's restaurant in Kuta Beach, on Sunday. Asked if suicide bombers were responsible, he told reporters: "We have not come to that conclusion yet. We need to develop the investigation." "We want to search things that may be overlooked. We need to search and re-search again," Pastika said. Asked if the bombs had been hidden inside the restaurant before the blast or carried in, he said: "We have found a crater on the floor but give us more time so that there is no mistake." The well-respected Pastika is credited with a major role in the capture of many of those involved in the 2002 bombings. Police had blocked off much of the street in front of the restaurant, where a forensics team was at work. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono branded the blasts as acts of terrorism
and vowed to catch those responsible. The United States, Britain, Australia and
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan also condemned the attacks.
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