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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...
...Bali's capital Denpasar, Sanglah Hospital was filled with the wounded and the dead. Irzalisa Irsjafri, a 31-year-old Indonesian patient covered in cuts and bruises, says she was eating with 13 friends on the beach when there was a huge noise: "I got up and saw bodies all around, not moving. I'm sure they were dead." Her husband suffered abdominal injuries and remains in intensive care. Outside the hospital, young Indonesian men light candles for the victims. White cloth banners are strung along a fence, reflecting the anger and despair the attacks have generated among Balinese. "Kill...
...bombings did not come as a surprise. Just days earlier Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had warned that terrorist attacks might be imminent. And though both Indonesian and foreign security officials had focused on the capital Jakarta as the most likely target, nobody doubted that Bali was a candidate...
...confirmed two recent bird-flu deaths, and by the end of last week more than 20 people around the country, including a number of children, were being treated as suspected cases. The World Health Organization has said there is no evidence yet of sustained human-to-human transmission, but Indonesians are increasingly worried?and Jakarta's confused response to the crisis has done little to ease fears. On Sept. 19, after a zoo in the capital reported an outbreak among its birds, the government declared avian flu an "extraordinary event"?but officials later admitted they weren't sure what...
...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 to a J.I. training camp on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, a source familiar with the details of the journey confirmed...