Indonesian police said Friday two bombs found at a house in West Java might be the work of two Malaysian terrorists wanted for major bombings in the country. National police chief Gen. Da'i Bachtiar said the bombs, found inside two backpacks, were discovered following a powerful explosion Thursday night at a rented house in the West Java district of Cianjur. Witnesses said four unidentified men, wounded in the explosion, left after the blast and have not returned to the house. Police found the backpacks when they arrived to investigate the explosion.
Bachtiar said the bombs in Cianjur, about 60 miles southeast of Jakarta, could be linked to a terror group led by two fugitive Malaysians, Azahari Husin and Noordin Mohammed Top. Cianjur is the hometown of A. Golun, the man who detonated a suicide bomb outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta on Sept. 9. Azahari and Noordin, believed to be senior leaders of the al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah, are accused of a string of terror attacks including the October 2002 Bali bombings, the August 2003 blast outside Jakarta's J.W. Marriott hotel and last month's blast outside the Australian Embassy. |