The perpetrators of the second terror bomb blasts in Jimbaran and Kuta, Bali on Oct. 1, 2005, were "new players," an Indonesian police source has said.

"They are new in the sense that they were some of the latest recruits of an international terrorist network which has been active especially in Southeast Asia," a reliable police source in Bali was quoted Sunday by official news agency Antara as saying.

The information was linked to new intelligence findings that at least 10 graduates of terrorist schools in Mindanau, the Philippines, had been sent to other parts of the region including Indonesia, he said.

According to police records, several weeks after the sending of those graduates there was bomb blast at Tentena market in Poso district, Central Sulawesi.

Coinciding with the Tentena bombing, the intelligence of police in Bali then doubted similar blasts could happen in this resort island, he said.

The prediction then turned out to be right. On Oct. 1, bomb blasts ripped through Manega and Nyoman Cafes in Jimbaran and Raja 's bar in Kuta, Badung district, Bali.

"They are alleged to be new players and recruitees, so that old players under detention in jails do not know much about them," Bali Police Chief Inspector General Made Mangku Pastika earlier said in Denpasar.

Three heads of the alleged perpetrators found in the location of the blasts were actually new generation in world terrorism, he added.

As new players, old players who had long engaged in terrorism did not know much about them, he said.

The photos of the heads found in the blasts were shown to old perpetrators who had received capital sentence for their involvement in the first Bali bomb blasts, but none of them knew them.

Source: Xinhua