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Tucked away in a remote village in mountainous northern Bali, 23-year-old Rimbawa attempts to remember the disaster that changed his life. He gently strokes his arm, wrapped in a grubby bandage that protects the third-degree burns beneath, and stares into the middle distance where his mother and two sisters are busy preparing banana-leaf offerings for a Hindu cleansing ceremony. Minutes pass. Tears well in his eyes. Then slowly, painfully, Rimbawa rises from his seat on the stone step in front of the family home and shuffles into his bedroom. The interview is over. Not a single...
...Indonesian police investigating the bomb blasts that tore the heart out of Bali's Kuta tourist district on Oct. 12, killing around 200 and injuring hundreds more, believe Rimbawa may hold the key to identifying at least one of the killers responsible. Rimbawa was a sweeper in Paddy's Irish Pub, and witnesses say he was standing near a 1-kilogram TNT bomb that detonated on a table inside the popular bar. That explosion sent scores of frantic patrons rushing out?into the range of a far more deadly bomb packed inside a white Mitsubishi minivan parked outside the Sari...
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First, we have clearly won the War on Terror. Terrorism is simply not the major threat these days. Forget that some 200 tourists were killed last week in Bali. Forget that there was an attack on US troops in Kuwait two weeks ago. Forget that the “chatter” has increased and that al-Qaeda delivers messages to the news media every day. These are not part of a larger pattern that signals the continued existence of al-Qaeda. The facts tell us that we’ve rebuilt Afghanistan and haven’t heard from...