The Mystery of the Two Iqbals

Imam Samudra recruited two Iqbals as field operatives in the Bali bombing. Both are believed to have died in the blasts.

February 4, 2003

In Bali, a piece of flesh has police totally bemused. It is indeed not just a nondescript piece of flesh, but a body part of Iqbal—one of the perpetrators of the Bali bombing, said to have died in Paddy's Bar, on October 12, 2002.

Initially, based on the clarifications of Imam Samudra (real name Abdul Aziz)—the field commander for the bombing that killed almost 200 people—Iqbal was thought to be a suicide bomber in Paddys Bar.

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