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...constant terrorist attacks led to wholesale cancellations. Less than two years ago, separatist guerrillas attacked the visitorpacked international airport?blowing up half of all the national carrier's aircraft and killing 17 people. Asia offered other, safer sun-kissed destinations; travelers disparaged Sri Lanka as "the poor man's Bali...
...Those roles are now reversed. Bali is trying to recover from the devastating October bombings that killed 193. In the meantime Sri Lanka has experienced more than a year of peace thanks to a truce between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Tourist arrivals hit 393,000 last year, nearly returning to pre-civil-war levels. And some visitors are finding the country's Buddhist sites and exquisite beaches so charming?and safe?that they want to claim a permanent piece of paradise. A mini property boom on the southern coast has begun...
...Numbers 202 is the official final death toll from last October's bomb attacks in Bali...
...Afghanistan, the group's hospitality was motivated more by international Islamist solidarity than by anti-Western jihad. In 2000, the Philippine military overran all of the MILF's bases?including its two biggest camps, Abubakar and Bushra, which hosted militants from overseas. But since 9/11 and especially the Bali bombing, the authorities in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore have been cracking down hard on Islamic radicals at home, sending many of them scurrying back to Mindanao and its largely unpoliced coastline. "These are fresh intakes," says a Philippine military-intelligence official in Manila. "They're coming in on small boats, entering...
...Nobody backed us or sponsored us. Our ability is something to be proud of." ALI IMRON, Accused Bali bomb maker, taking credit for the attacks...