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October is a special month for terrorism, declared Indonesian President Bambang Yudhoyono in August. "Terrorist cells are still active. They are still hiding, recruiting, networking, trying to find new funding sources and even planning." As if on schedule, on Oct. 1 suicide bombers struck Indonesia's island of Bali, just 11 days shy of the third anniversary of another set of blasts that took 202 lives on the island. At 7:30 p.m. on a crowded Saturday, the popular tourist town of Kuta, the target of the 2002 attacks, was rocked by an explosion. A multistory restaurant was gutted. Simultaneously...
Helsan Surapati sits on the glass-strewn pavement outside the gutted Raja restaurant, playing a blurry video clip of smoke and bloodied faces on his mobile phone. The Balinese vendor was buying a soda just down the street when a bomb hit the three-story building in Bali's popular tourist strip of Kuta. In a quivering voice, Helsan describes how he helped carry the wounded to taxis so they could be rushed to hospital. "There were people everywhere with bloodied faces," he says. "They were afraid of another bomb and were screaming and running." He shakes his head, repeating...
...Once again, the tourist haven of Bali was under attack. Nearly three years ago, on Oct. 12, 2002, two bombs killed 202 people there. This time, beginning around 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 1, three explosions ripped through southern Bali within about 10 minutes of each other: first came the Kuta blast, then two more at beach restaurants in the high-end tourist hangout of Jimbaran Bay, 8 km away. The authorities said suicide bombers wearing vests packed with explosives were responsible, and that their remains were found at the scenes. At least 26 people were killed and more than...
...keep the jihad going." Hambali, who was arrested in Thailand in August 2003, had extremely close links to al-Qaeda's leadership and acted as operations chief for Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.), the militant network credited with several bombings in the region, including the October 12, 2002 attack in Bali, Indonesia that killed 202 people. On Khan's first visit, the jailed militant told police, they traveled to the Malaysian state of Sabah in Borneo, where Khan was introduced to a senior member of J.I., Nasir Abbas. Nasir, who remains free but is cooperating with Indonesian police, took Khan...
...SENIWATI GALLERY OF ART BY WOMEN This gem of a gallery, tel: (62 361) 975-485, displays a broad selection of painting, pottery and weaving from more than 40 women artists worldwide. But its main focus is on female painters from Bali itself and on their characteristically dark orange-, brown- and golden-hued work...