2 grilled for Bali bomb attack -- police
By Joel Guinto
INQUIRER.net
Last updated 02:51pm (Mla time) 01/12/2007
(UPDATE) POLICE raided on Friday several homes of Indonesians living in General Santos City and took in two foreigners for questioning on a past bomb attack in Bali, Indonesia, police said.
The raid was conducted following an explosion in the city late Wednesday that killed at least six people and injured more than 20 others.
Chief Superintendent German Doria, Central Mindanao police director, confirmed that the two were picked up from their homes in General Santos’ Indonesian community.
He said that the two would be released within six hours “if we [police] don’t get anything.”
He added that the operation was also part of efforts to prevent future bomb attacks in Mindanao.
But residents in the area were quoted by GMA Network’s “Flash Report” as saying that the Indonesians, whose identities were withheld, had been living peacefully in the place.
At least two suspected terrorists and alleged members of the Southeast Asian terrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah -- Umar Patek and Dulmatin -- have been identified as Indonesian nationals and have been reported to be hiding in Mindanao with the Abu Sayyaf, a local terrorist group.
Umar Patek and Dulmatin have also been tagged as the alleged masterminds behind the 2002 bombings in Bali, Indonesia where over 200 people were killed.
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