Sifting Debris, Prodding Memories

Police were able to make out the engine’s serial number, which had been ground down, to discover the perpetrator of the Bali bombing.

November 12, 2002

IT was the twisted hulk of one vehicle that made police suspicious. The vehicle was positioned almost precisely at the point of the explosion on Jalan Legian. Yet there were no identifiable details at all to be found on it, such as the engine serial number or body number. The engine was no longer in one piece and had lodged in the ground. The body was in pieces. The pieces were scattered about the ruins of the Sari Club and Paddy’s, which w

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