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...bombs that demolished part of Bali's bustling Kuta district three years ago represented more than a vicious terrorist attack and a terrible human tragedy. For many of those familiar with the Indonesian island?with its beauty, serenity and spirituality?the bombs exploded the idea of a peaceful safe haven in an increasingly violent world. Consumed by fear and horror, tourists fled Bali in droves...
...Indonesian government official with access to investigation reports offers a similarly unsettling picture of the difficulties involved in tracking down these loosely linked bands of terrorists: "Many of them have broken off relationships with older connections and have now formed smaller groups of their own. These people get recruited for jobs and may not even know who or what is recruiting them. Information is kept to a minimum and they are usually only told what they need to know...
...just Indonesia that's vulnerable to this force of malleable recruits. Some of them are already being dispatched from Indonesia to help fellow militants in neighboring countries. A Malaysian security official told TIME that three Indonesian militants arrested on June 9 in the Malaysian Borneo state of Sabah revealed to interrogators that they were intending to die as suicide bombers in the Philippines' troubled, Muslim-majority south. A senior Philippine security official has told TIME that after the arrest of militant Abdullah Sunata on July 2 in Indonesia, the authorities recovered e-mails between Sunata and Umar Patek, a fellow...
...however, that H5N1 is on the move. The virus killed thousands of wild geese in China this past spring and popped up among migratory birds in parts of Siberia this summer. There was a report in May about a handful of infected pigs in western Java. Even more worrisome, Indonesian health authorities said last week that a number of chickens on household farms in Jakarta had been testing positive for H5N1 without showing signs of illness. If confirmed, that development could severely complicate efforts to track and control bird flu in poultry. Without dead chickens, you can't tell where...
...Increase in gasoline prices announced by the Indonesian government last week, to 44? per liter, prompting widespread protests...