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The alleged field commander in last October’s Bali bombings in which nearly 200 people died, claimed Tuesday that the main targets of the attack were Americans, although many of the people who were killed were Australian. “The main target in the Legian bomb attacks was Americans and its allies, because the U.S. is the main terrorist in the world,” Ali Imron told a news conference. “A blast at outside the U.S. consulate in Bali was a warning for the America,” Imron said. “I vow as a Muslim that what happened in Bali was purely our group. Nobody backed us or sponsored us.”Imron said that at the time of the bombing he didn’t know whether Australia was a U.S. ally. Some 88 Australians died in the bombings of two nightspots on the Legian entertainment strip of Kuta, Bali. Full Story