Making Terrorists Talk
Not many were convinced when the suspected Bali bombers first shocked the world with their boasts of how they were involved in the incident. How did the police manage to extract information from the suspects?
December 24, 2002
DURING the past weeks, the police have been very busy interrogating Muchlas, alias Ali Gufron, who has been mentioned as a prominent member of Jamaah Islamiyah (JI) and the mastermind of the Bali bomb blast on October 12. Muchlas and several of his friends, who were arrested just days before the post-Ramadan Lebaran holiday, are the latest batch of suspects to have been placed in police custody. Their statements during t
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