Darren Goodsir, Matthew Moore and Tom Allard report for the Sydney Morning Herald. Excerpt:
Indonesian police have conducted lie-detector tests on three Indonesian men being treated as “possible suspects” in the Bali bombing case.
In interviews with the Herald yesterday, Indonesian experts attached to the police scientific headquarters in Denpasar, PusLab For, confirmed they had done detailed polygraph analysis during interviews with the three witnesses to the October 12 bombings, which killed more than 180 people and injured 320.
At a computer displaying graph read-outs, a Jakarta-based officer, Lukas Budisantoso Msi, said: “I have been doing the polygraph tests on the suspects. We already have the results and a conclusion from the three witnesses.”
Mr Budisantoso declined to reveal his findings.
The Indonesian-Australian police effort, Operation Alliance, has been focusing on three Indonesian suspects, seen acting suspiciously just before the blasts in Paddy’s Pub and outside the Sari Club.
Police said detailed facial images of three men, compiled in the past week, would be released in “one or two days”. It has not been confirmed whether the three photofit images are of the men given the polygraph tests.