Word: denpasar
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...source familiar with a Nov. 15 interrogation, Amrozi disclosed that the target of the group's main bomb was changed at the last moment by the intervention of three mysterious strangers. Originally, Amrozi told his captors, the group had planned to target only the U.S. consulate in Denpasar, Bali's capital. But the strangers suggested that only a token bomb be left at the empty consulate; the main effort was to be concentrated on the Kuta bars...
...that there were no travel warnings issued for New York after Sept. 11. "Like New York, Bali is a victim," says Pitana. "Why should it be punished further?" To make Bali safer, the police presence has been upgraded, all entry points are now closely scrutinized, and visitors landing at Denpasar airport have their bags x-rayed as they leave the terminal. Still, tourists are not convinced that Bali is secure. Hotel occupancy, which usually averages around 50%, has plummeted to single digits. More than 300,000 hotel and restaurant staff have been laid off, and those who have kept their...
...police's secret most wanted list. (After testifying, the 39-year-old mechanic signed the 70-plus-page transcript with a flourish, bizarrely adding a grinning smiley face next to his name.) Originally, Amrozi told his captors, the group had planned to target only the U.S. consulate in Denpasar, Bali's capital. The newcomers were "as smart as Samudra," Amrozi emphasized, leading the police to believe they were of the same or higher rank. Amrozi was surprised to discover that Samudra wasn't the one calling the shots. Before these men arrived, Amrozi said in the interrogation, Samudra was talking...
...Investigators are now certain that there were three bomb blasts that evening, two of them on Jalan Legian. The first, a half-kilogram bomb made from TNT and detonated by remote control from a mobile phone, exploded near the U.S. consulate in Bali in the city of Denpasar, not far from Kuta. Ten minutes later, a second bomb, also packed with TNT, went off beside Rimbawa as he worked in Paddy's. Minutes later the payload bomb, its exact makeup still to be confirmed, erupted on the crowded street outside the Sari Club. (Investigators believe that both of those bombs...
...moments before midnight Saturday did more than kill dozens and injure scores of innocent barhoppers, tourists and natives-they serve as a reminder that terrorists are not only present but active throughout the country. The two bombs-one placed on Kuta's busiest nightlife thoroughfare and the other in Denpasar near the U.S. consulate-seemed targeted at foreigners...