Details from Bali blasts revealed

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Authorities are making progress in the investigation of a bombing in Bali that killed nearly 200 people, with investigators now concluding that three, not two, explosives were used in the attack, police said Sunday.\nMeanwhile, authorities considered how to interrogate the ailing spiritual leader of a group suspected of carrying out the Oct. 12 nightclub attack as about 100 Islamic students protested outside a hospital to prevent police from removing him.\n"We want to make sure that police will not take Abu Bakar Bashir from hospital until he recovers," said Mudzakir, one of the students gathered in front of the Muhammadiyah Hospital in the town of Solo where Bashir is being treated for breathing problems.\nArmed policemen monitored the protest but did not intervene.\nBashir, a cleric who runs an Islamic school, was arrested Saturday on suspicion of involvement in a series of church bombings two years ago. He is the spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, a group widely believed to have carried out last week's bombings.\nBashir denies any role in either incident.\nIn Bali, Gen. Edward Aritonang, a national police spokesman, said authorities now believe that three explosions destroyed Paddy's pub and Sari's nightclub on the island of Bali.\nPreviously, police assumed an initial, smaller blast damaged Paddy's seconds before a much more powerful explosion at nearby Sari's, causing most of the casualties.\nIt was not immediately known how they arrived at that conclusion.\nAritonang said authorities believed there was no link between a grenade blast near the office of the honorary U.S. consul around the time of the Bali nightclub attack. There were no casualties in the grenade attack.\nThe investigation -- conducted jointly by more than 100 investigators from Indonesia, Australia, the United States, Britain and other countries -- was proceeding well, Aritonang said.\n"There has been some progress now," Aritonang told reporters.