THE spiritual leader of a group with suspected links to al-Qaida yesterday denied that he ordered deadly bomb attacks against dozens of churches on Christmas Eve 2000 and called the charges “lies from America”.

THE man police say confessed to carrying out the Bali nightclub bombing has admitted to being associated with al-Qaida’s South-East Asian terror chief, Indonesian police said yesterday.

INDONESIAN police yesterday said they expected to capture more accomplices following the arrest of a leading suspect in the Bali bombing the first major breakthrough in the inquiry.

INDONESIAN police said yesterday that a man they are interrogating has confessed to planting a bomb in an attack on Bali nightclub that killed nearly 200 people last month.

ONE blackened body after another was yesterday pulled from the blood-spattered remains of a tourist nightclub ripped apart