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...still in business and is casting about for new targets. French and U.S. officials believe the Oct. 6 explosion that ripped a large hole in a French oil tanker off the Yemen coast, killing a Bulgarian crew member, was the work of terrorists linked to al-Qaeda. The blast closely resembled al-Qaeda's October 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden. Two days after the tanker blast, members of a Kuwaiti terrorist cell that had "pledged allegiance" to bin Laden staged an apparent suicide ambush on U.S. Marines on the Kuwaiti island of Failaka...
...month ago her employer was forced to close after U.S. athletic gear giant Nike stopped ordering sneakers. Yasin has been looking for work, but now she has begun to despair. "Many orders from America could be moved away from Indonesia" she says, in the wake of the Bali blast. "It could make it more difficult for me to find a job. I don't know how I'm going to send money to my mother if I don't get paid...
...Beach are bound to intersect with the nation's fragile social and political ecosystem in unpredictable ways, testing the allegiances and resilience of an ineffective government, and dealing a body blow to a sputtering economy that has yet to fully recover from Asia's 1997 economic crisis. "The bomb blast in Bali hurts a situation that is already bad," says Muhammad Chatib Basri, an associate director at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta. "There are a lot of things the government has to do, and it's a lot harder...
...companies don't have to deal with locals beyond a few government officials and hired labor. Transport is easy too: the oil fields sit a direct tanker trip across the Atlantic from Europe or America's east coast, with no pesky Suez Canal or Gulf to navigate. The Bali blast is a reminder that no place is safe from terror, and recent fighting in Ivory Coast is a symbol of West Africa's volatility, but oilmen remain bullish in part because oil production is offshore and thus rarely disturbed by onshore unrest. "West Africa may not be particularly stable...
TERROR Targeting Asia's Weakness Islamic terrorists routinely say they hate the West - so why are they taking it out on the East? Bombings in Manila, Zamboanga and Karachi, in the wake of a particularly horrific blast in Bali, provided the answer: Asia offers the softest targets, often because its governments and police forces lack either the will or the way to crack down on extremist groups. In Bali last week, tourists and locals alike were outraged by revelations the Indonesian government ignored warnings from the U.S. that groups linked to al-Qaeda were active in the country. (The British...