Posted on 08/29/2006 1:56:50 PM PDT by aculeus
Indonesian Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir claims America's top spy agency was involved in the devastating 2002 Bali bombings.
Bashir, who was convicted and imprisoned for having prior knowledge of the attacks which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, is also appealing for the lives of three convicted bombers to be spared.
Bashir, the spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), was released from prison in June after serving nearly two years.
Amrozi, Ali Ghufron - also known as Mukhlas - and Imam Samudra are awaiting execution for their part in the plot.
In an interview tonight on ABC television's Foreign Correspondent, Bashir claims the device that killed most people in the Bali attack was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) "micro-nuclear" bomb.
"The micro-nuclear bomb that did so much damage was a CIA bomb, not Amrozi's bomb," Bashir told the ABC.
"The Bali bombing was actually masterminded by America. Well, not masterminded, but hijacked. They planned it, but their plan was hijacked by America."
"So the bomb that killed so many Australians, it was an American bomb. It wasn't the bomb made by Amrozi and his friends."
Bashir defended the Bali bombers, but conceded their actions may have been "misguided".
"Actually, they (the bombers) are not terrorists. America is the terrorist. They are not terrorists. They followed the path of jihad to defend Islam and Muslims. Perhaps their actions were misguided," Bashir said.
"Secondly, it was unfair of the court to sentence them to death because their bomb would not have killed people, only injured them. It was a CIA bomb that killed people."
Bashir also attacked the Australian government, saying it wrongly continued to hound him and treat him as an enemy.
He said Indonesia had placed no travel restrictions on him and he was free to go where he wanted.
"It's the Australian government that makes every effort to ensure I continue to be hounded. So in Indonesia there are no restrictions on me travelling overseas. I'm allowed to go anywhere I want to.
"But it would be impossible to go to Australia because if I went there I would be arrested and slandered by the Australian government. The Australian government still treats me like an enemy for reasons that are unclear. "
AAP
Someone needs to Photoshop a tinfoil turban on this guys head.
Valerie Plame pulled off the job.
Of course we did, that's why we had to use conventional explosives on the levees in New Orleans.
And remember, no hurricanes have ever hit Crawford, TX (Rush parody on Louie Farakan)
Only as a prelude to our "Micro-Storm Troopers" and their little guns and tanks. They are so cute!!! /Barking at the moon
For every Jack, there's a Jill.
Can't wait for Michael Moore to expose this!!!
Anyone else hardening in their opinion that pretty much anything that flies out of a muslim's piehole is just so much fertilizer?
It amazes me when people who are barely living in modern conditions have so much knowledge about nukes and espionage.
"Ninety percent of muslims will believe this.Half of Western and Central Europe will " etc..
BINGO!!!!!
Captain Clueless.
This guy needs an enema with a micro-nuclear bomb in it placed directly up his camel poop chute.
Actually I am curious about just how small a nuke can be made. Not planning on building any nuclear bottle rockets or anything, just ponderin.
That isn't common knowledge. They had to wait to release it until they'd developed a counter-weapon, the anti-anti-matter-matter bomb. Rove is a genius.
He needs to quit watching Toy Story so much.Any one who has any knowledge about bombs,knows any kind of Nuc.device would have levelled the place.And then some.
That sneaky Karl Rove sure gets around!
>Only as a prelude to our "Micro-Storm Troopers" and their little guns and tanks.
The general consensus is that the smallest possible nuclear weapon is going to be about the size of one of a large knapsack (down from the Soviet-era suitcase sized atomic demolition munition).
The problem is that the smallest *yield* is still going to be in the kiloton-plus range and is *really* obvious. As in "takes out several city blocks" obvious.
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