Indonesian investigators said Friday that they believed Thursday morning's bombing of the Australian Embassy, which killed nine people, was carried out by three suicide attackers who had eluded a police manhunt after their fellow Muslim militants were captured during raids in July and August. As police carried out interrogations in recent weeks, authorities grew increasingly worried that Jemaah Islamiah, an underground Muslim organization linked to al Qaeda, was planning a major terrorist bombing, investigators said. Within the last week, Indonesian police circulated an internal memo warning of a possible attack, according to three officers involved in the investigation of the Thursday bombing. The memo focused on potential targets such as embassies, foreign-owned company offices and hotels and the national police headquarters and counterterrorism training center, the investigators said.
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