No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. Senior police official Ghafoor Afridi tells VOA that the bomber bypassed multiple security checkpoints.
VOA: standard.2009.09.26
"That is the whole intention, " said Hamid Abdul Ghafoor, a Maldivian Democratic Party spokesman.
In 2006, Ghafoor sued the U.S. government for wiretapping his conversations with his fugitive legal client, Soliman al-Buthi, after he had been designated a global terrorist by the Treasury Department in February 2004.