Al-Qaida may have bankrolled Bali bombings

AL-QAIDA may have financed the Bali bomb attacks that killed 202 people, including 26 Britons, a jailed Muslim radical said yesterday at the trial of a key bombing suspect.

Wan Min Wan Mat, in prison in Malaysia, spoke via a video link at the trial of Ali Ghufron, alias Mukhlas, the alleged operations head of Jemaah Islamiyah, the regional terror group blamed for carrying out the two nightclub bombings on October 12 last year.

Ghufron is one of four top suspects currently on trial for the attacks that shattered the peace in one of the world's premier tourist destinations.