Bali bombers named
Police said the announcement was not made earlier for "security reasons. Azahari would have escaped us if he realised we knew". The bombers were identified by their families and DNA testing.
Jakarta (AsiaNews) The Indonesian police today publicly named two of the three suicide bombers who blew themselves apart in Jimbaran and Kuta on the island of Bali. Twenty-five people were killed and more than 130 wounded in the October attack. The news of identification was broken only today so as not to impede investigations.
The suicide bombers were called Misno, 30 years, known also as Wisnu and coming from Ujungmanik village (central Java) and 24-year-old Salik from Cikijing (West Java).
The announcement was made by Inspector-General Aryanto Budihardjo who said: "It was the families who recognized and identified the heads." The police statement was also confirmed by DNA testing on the bombers' remains commissioned by Emi Klanawijaya, the defence lawyer of their families, and by Supardan, the head of Ujungmanik village, who confirmed Misno's identity.
News of the identification was broken today "for security reasons". "If we had revealed the names earlier, the group of Dr Azahari would have been frightened and escaped from Malang, where we found them," said Inspector Made Mangku Pastina, head of the Bali police. The anti-terrorism squad believes although this theory has not been verified as yet that it was the Malaysian terrorist Azahari bin Husin who supplied the explosives for the attacks. Azahari died on 9 November after a police raid on his hideout in Malang.
Misno's family said he disappeared in 2003 after getting a diploma at the Islamic school Madrasah Ibtidaiyah. The boy had said he wanted to settle in Batam, an island near Singapore, but from that moment, he vanished into thin air.
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