The 12 October 2002 bombings have been blamed on Jemaah
Islamiah (JI), - a south-east Asian militant group which is
said to have links with Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.
For those of us who are convinced that 9/11 was an inside job,
and who are aware that Al Qaeda has been used by the CIA in
several destabilization exercises (e.g., Kosovo), any incident
blamed on Al Qaeda can only raise suspicion. Particularly
when, as in these Bali bombings, the incident benefits only
one agenda: the agenda of those who are pursuing the so-called
'War on Terrorism'.
rkm
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Nineteen killed in Bali bombings
A series of bomb attacks on the Indonesian resort island of
Bali has killed at least 19 people.
Many others were injured in at least three blasts which took
place just before 2000 local time (1200 GMT).
Two blasts went off at Jimbaran - a seaside area packed with
restaurants. Another was at Kuta beach, the area most popular
with Western tourists.
In October 2002, bomb attacks blamed on Islamic extremists
killed 202 people in Kuta, among them many foreign tourists.
Local TV has been showing pictures of people with terrible
injuries and collapsed buildings.
Indonesian foreign ministry spokesman Marty Natalegawa told
the BBC the explosions happened within about 10 minutes of one
another.
A British tourist who was in a building next door to a
restaurant that was hit in Kuta said there was a "thunderous
boom" that caused all the shop's windows to blow out.
"It was just chaos," Daniel Martin told the BBC.
He said there were people lying in the streets with serious
injuries, with everyone pitching in to help.
Journalist Maris Bakkalupulo went to the scene of the Kuta
blast, and saw a noodle shop that had been badly damaged.
"It's completely gutted," she told the BBC. "Everything has
been blasted out of the building, which is very mangled."
The Australian Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, has said at
least one Australian was killed and three injured.
A hospital official told Reuters news agency that at least 35
wounded foreigners had been taken to the island's main
hospital. However he was unable to say whether foreigners were
among the dead.
Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has condemned
the blasts, Reuters news agency reports.
His spokesman said he was heading to the island.
Local media said the police had found a number of other
unexploded devices.
Warnings
The blasts come less than two weeks before the third
anniversary of bomb attacks that killed 202 people - many of
them foreigners holidaying in Bali.
The 12 October 2002 bombings have been blamed on Jemaah
Islamiah (JI), - a south-east Asian militant group which is
said to have links with Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.
JI is also suspected of being behind a suicide bombing at the
Marriott hotel in Jakarta that killed 11 people in 2003, and a
suicide bombing at the Australian embassy last September in
which eight people were killed.
The BBC's Tim Johnston in Jakarta says the authorities had
warned that militants had been planning further attacks on
Western targets in Indonesia, although there had been no
particular alerts over the past few days.
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