Investigators hunted today for the two suspected masterminds of suicide bombings on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, as Southeast Asian nations went on high alert to prevent a repeat of the weekend attacks.

Police were rushing to identify three suicide bombers in blasts that killed 26 people on Bali island, while seeking three accomplices and enlisting a former operative of Southeast Asia’s top terror group to help track down the masterminds.

INDONESIA said yesterday it suspected two fugitives linked to al-Qaida masterminded the suicide bombings of crowded restaurants in tourist areas of Bali that killed at least 26 people and injured more than 100.

‘DEMOLITION Man’ and ‘Moneyman’ are suspected of being the masterminds behind the latest Bali bombings.

The two most wanted men in south-east Asia are believed to have masterminded the suicide bombings at three crowded restaurants on the Indonesian tourist resort island of Bali, officials said today.

Suicide bombers wearing explosive vests targeted tourist resorts on Bali with coordinated attacks that devastated three crowded restaurants on the Indonesian resort island, killing at least 26 people and wounding dozens of others, officials said today.

Suicide bombers carried out the attacks on three crowded restaurants on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, killing at least 25 people and wounding more than 100, a top anti-terror official said yesterday.

The last of six Muslim militants accused in the 2004 suicide bombing at the Australian Embassy was today sentenced to 10 years in prison for helping the alleged masterminds carry out the attack.

An Indonesian court sentenced an Islamic militant to death today for involvement in the 2004 Australian Embassy suicide bombing, the second such verdict to be handed down in the case.

Indonesian prosecutors today asked for the death sentence for one of the Australian Embassy bombers, saying he was a key planner in the attack that killed 11 people who showed no remorse for his actions.

An Indonesian court today sentenced the alleged mastermind of 2002 bombing of a McDonald’s restaurant to life in prison, saying the Islamic militant planned the attack that came just weeks after the Bali nightclub attacks.

The first suspect to face charges in the 2004 bombing of the Australian Embassy in Jakarta was sentenced to three and a half years in prison today for assisting the attack’s perpetrators.

Two bombs exploded Saturday at a busy market in central Indonesia, killing at least 20 people and wounding 40 others in a volatile area marred by years of inter-religious fighting, a police official said.

The US closed all of its diplomatic facilities in Indonesia today until further notice, citing an unspecified security threat.

Indonesia today defended its record on fighting terrorism after the United States and Australia criticised the 30-month sentence given to the alleged spiritual leader of an al-Qaida-linked terror group as too lenient.

Indonesian police said today they had arrested a woman suspected of sending a hoax bomb threat that closed the British and Thai embassies in Jakarta.

Indonesian police have arrested a key terror suspect wanted for the 2002 Bali bombings, last year’s attack on a Jakarta hotel and a suicide blast in September at the Australian embassy.

Police have arrested the wife of one of Southeast Asia’s most wanted terror suspects and plan to charge her in connection with last year’s suicide bombing at the Marriott hotel in the Indonesian capital, police said today.

Indonesian police today announced the arrests of four suspects in the suicide bombing at the Australian Embassy – the first major breakthrough in an investigation into the deadly attack.

Indonesian police have detained at least seven people including a would-be suicide bomber over possible links with the suspected masterminds of last week’s deadly bombing at the Australian Embassy.