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...Wolfowitz says, based on his time in Indonesia and friendship with many Indonesians, that the bombing will generate "widespread shock and horror at how evil people have abused their country." And, if the bombing is found to be the work of Muslim extremists, "it's going to be the Muslims of Indonesia who in huge numbers are going to be angriest," he says...
Last weekend's Bali bomb blast that killed upwards of 180 people is a bloody "wake up call" to Indonesia to get tougher on the terrorists in the archipelago. So says Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense and arguably the Bush administration's most ardent champion of Indonesia. "We've been talking with them for a long time about the seriousness of this problem, and the need to take it on seriously," said Wolfowitz, who served as the U.S. ambassador in Jakarta from 1986 to 1989. "While they've made progress, there's still obviously a lot more...
...Wolfowitz: Bali a 'Wake-up Call' Indonesia's Own Bin Ladens Terror Hits Hard in Indonesia The Attack: In Their Own Words Assessing The Usual Suspects...
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...Wolfowitz says that the U.S. must not pressure Indonesia to crack down on terrorists. After a half-century of living under various autocracies and dictatorships, the Indonesians are leery of giving police too much power. "The Indonesians have been slow to arrest people," Wolfowitz acknowledges. "You get into difficult judgments - we would say that the evidence is there and that they're simply too concerned about the possibility, which is real, that it will be misunderstood by their public as simply a cracking down on people for their religious beliefs, which happen to be the beliefs of a great majority...