Ledakan bom di Bali itu ulah orang Islam tipikal lagi..?
Wallahu alam bissawab...
Untuk pastinya, mari kita tunggu hasil penyelidikan selanjutnya.
Bagi yang masih punya humor hitam saya persilahkan menyalahkan
Mossad yang menghukum Indonesia yang belum juga bergegas membuka
hubungan diplomatik dengan Israel...
Bombs may be the work of mutated JI
By Marian Wilkinson National Security Editor
October 3, 2005
Three severed heads found at the bombing sites in Bali have
confronted Australian and Indonesian police with evidence that
suicide bombers have again struck Western targets in Indonesia.
The federal police commissioner, Mick Keelty, revealed the
discoveries yesterday, describing them as "a typical forensic
outcome" of a suicide bombing.
While he warned that it would take some time to confirm whether the
attacks were suicide bombings, the federal police forensics team
working with Indonesian police will search for remnants of backpacks
or suicide vests to learn the identities of the culprits.
As speculation intensifies over whether the attacks were the work of
Jemaah Islamiah or one of its splinter groups, the greater concern is
that they bear the hallmarks of JI's two most senior and deadly
strategists, Azahari Husin and Noordin Mohammed Top, who are still on
the run.
If the two are linked to the bombings, this will have been their
fourth deadly attack against Western interests in Indonesia.
More importantly, it will prove they have successfully adapted their
techniques to defeat the huge security crackdown mounted by
Indonesian and Australian police over the past three years.
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The two Malaysian operatives played central roles in the first Bali
bombing in 2002, the attack on the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta in 2003
and the bombing of the Australian embassy in the capital last year.
Azahari was JI's senior bomb-maker; Top was the co-ordinator,
choosing the recruits and putting the operations together.
Despite a huge manhunt in Indonesia they have escaped police dragnets
at least six times. After the embassy bombing,
Azahari was stopped by police near the site but reportedly bribed his
way through.
"Azahari and Top have been all over the place in West, Central and
East Java" said an expert on Indonesian terrorism, Greg Fealy. "In
Bandung, where police had raided a house where he was believed to be
staying, Azahari walked right past members of the police cordon in
disguise."
Mr Keelty said yesterday it was unfair to criticise the Indonesian
police for the failure to stop the two men.
"A lot of resources are going into this, and it just clearly spells
out the type of problem we are facing with the current terrorist
situation, where suicide bombers are recruited and where suicide
bombers are prepared to give up their own lives in order to kill
others."
But the attacks are a devastating blow to the Indonesian and
Australian police, both of which believed JI was badly damaged by the
crackdown, which resulted in 300 arrests and numerous convictions.
The Prime Minister, John Howard, insisted yesterday that while JI was
still seen as a threat by the intelligence agencies, he believed "we
have degraded it".
But the concern is now that JI or its splinter groups are
successfully mutating. There is growing evidence that JI's old
operatives like Azahari and Top are increasingly looking for recruits
among former jihadist fighters hardened in the religious conflicts in
Indonesia, from Ambon to Central Sulawesi.
Recruits who showed particular brutality in these conflicts, the
willingness to bomb a church or shoot a priest, were targeted as
potential suicide bombers, Dr Fealy said.
"It's not just the technical capacity; it's that willingness to
undertake those violent acts without any compunction."
Investigators have also uncovered manuals from the Middle Eastern
Hamas organisation outlining methods of suicide bombings that have
been translated into Indonesian.
Mr Keelty said the latest attacks indicated the bombs had also been
adapted. The attackers used more compact explosives, which were
bolstered with ball bearings to increase their impact.
Such bombs are not only harder to detect but their deadly success
against soft targets will encourage similar attacks on tourist bars
and restaurants.
The tragedy is that the mutated JI may be deadlier than its
predecessor. As another JI expert, Dr Zachary Abuza, points out, the
new recruits killed more Westerners on Saturday than at the Marriott
or the embassy.
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