Word: saris
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...rescue workers made their way into Kuta's destroyed Sari Club, the popular watering hole for vacationing Westerners that was the epicenter of one blast, the full extent of the wreckage and casualties were just coming clear; initial reports put the death toll at 3, then 15, then 28, then 50 and then 182. On the scene, shaken witnesses blurted out fragmentary descriptions: the crumpled remains of eight surrounding buildings, four charred bodies in a parked car, the mangled heaps of two vehicles that were flung 10 meters by the blast...
...Bali's warm night air, form a bustling pub crawl route for legions of backpackers, surfers and Australian tourists. And around 11pm, when the bomb exploded, would have been the street's peak hour. Hundreds of revelers and street vendors shilling Balinese handicrafts fill the avenue at night. Sari Club, says a local, was one of the more exclusive: it only admitted Westerners; locals weren't allowed...
...bomb was planted on the sidewalk in front of the Sari Club and tore a three-meter-deep crater in the street. Some fifteen vehicles were damaged. Another bar two doors down called Paddy's was also busy at the time and witnesses say there must be bodies inside that club as well. On the scene the thick smoke billows from the smouldering rubble, and rescue workers cover their noses to the smell of burning corpses...
...young Australian barely made it out of the Sari Club alive. Reese Schouse, dressed in a green short sleeved collared shirt and khaki shorts, had been drinking beers inside with three friends. The Aussies, all in their early twenties, were in Bali from Adelaide to play a rugby exhibition match. Inside Sari Club, Schouse remembers hearing two blasts. At the first, most people in the club grabbed their ears and ducked. But then came a second, much stronger explosion that blew flames through the open front entrance to the bar. Schouse and at least twelve other people found a hole...
...EAST School's Out Israeli police officers seized documents and computers from al-Quds University in East Jerusalem, before shutting it down. The Israeli government gave security as the grounds for the move. Both Israeli and Palestinian peace activists protested the decision, suggesting it was a way to silence Sari Nusseibeh, the university's popular president. Nusseibeh is a philosopher and peace negotiator who has criticized suicide bombings. IRAN Ayatullah Resigns A senior religious figure resigned his post and issued a condemnation of the way the country is being run. Ayatullah Jalaluddin Taheri had held the post of the leader...