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Bali Bomb Suspect Says
Blast May Have Been 'Nuclear'

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(AAP) -- Accused Bali bomber Amrozi suggested that last October's deadly blast may have been the result of a nuclear explosion.
 
In an extraordinary opening to his defence on charges of carrying out the terrorist bombing, Amrozi admitted buying explosive chemicals and a vehicle, but told the court his bomb would not have been powerful enough to cause such damage.
 
Amrozi, the so-called "smiling assassin" who enraged Westerners with his casual demeanour after his arrest, suggested it may have been a nuclear device set off after tracking by American or Israeli satellites.
 
"Up to now I still have doubts that kind of explosion with that many victims was caused by the car I sent," he told the court.
 
"I wouldn't blame people who said it was some kind of nuclear bomb."
 
He said the US and Israel had satellite devices that could have tracked the car bomb and detonated an explosion as the car drove down Legian Street in Kuta's nightclub strip.
 
Some 202 people, including 88 Australians, died in the blast on October 12 last year.
 
During a 22-minute address to the court Amrozi claimed he had been forced into providing evidence to investigators that he now denied, including attending four planning meetings before the attack.
 
But he did admit to buying the chemicals and the vehicle.
 
Amrozi said the attack had some positive effects, including disrupting a Jewish plan to empty places of worship.
 
If this plan went ahead Jews and their allies could easily conquer the world, he said.
 
He said the economic devastation for tourism meant that the Bali people would not become "slaves of foreigners".
 
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