Fed: Bashir says CIA involved in Bali bombings

AAP General News (Australia)
08-29-2006
Fed: Bashir says CIA involved in Bali bombings

Indonesian Muslim cleric ABU BAKAR Bashir says America's top spy agency was involvement
in the Bali bombings in 2002.

BASHIR has told ABC television the device that killed most people in the attack was
a micro-nuclear bomb .. from the Central Intelligence Agency.

BASHIR is the spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiah and was convicted over his role in
the attacks which killed 202 people .. including 88 Australians.

He was released from prison in June after nearly two years and has appealed for the
lives of the three convicted bombers to be spared.

The three men .. AMROZI .. MUKHLAS .. and IMAM SAMUDRA .. were to have been executed
this week .. but there's now a delay until appeals can be heard.



BASHIR has made his claims in an interview to be broadcast in ABC's Foreign Correspondent
program tonight.

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KEYWORD: BASHIR (CANBERRA)

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