| Terrorists used explosives smuggled from the Philippines in the deadly bombing of a Jakarta hotel last year and other attacks, Indonesia’s top detective said in newspaper reports Saturday. Police learned the source of the explosives during interrogation of Amran bin Mansyur alias Andi Saputra, a Malaysian arrested in Central Java province on February 26, General Superintendent Erwin Mappaseng said, quoted by Media Indonesia. Mansyur said some of the explosives smuggled from Mindanao were used to bomb churches in Sumatra on Christmas Eve, 2000. The attacks were part of a series across the country that killed 19 people. Explosives left over from those attacks were used in the JW Marriott bombing last August which killed 11 Indonesians and a Dutch banker. "From the residue of the Marriott bomb, the fact is the explosives are the same as those used on Christmas Eve," he said. |