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...Sari Club, in the town of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali, was one of those places where the world comes out to play. By 11 p.m. on Oct. 12, it was packed with the usual crowd--tanned Australian kids in shorts and halter tops dancing to house music, surfers in from the beach downing beers and Jell-O shots, expat sports teams from Hong Kong and Singapore, backpackers from around the world--the children of globalization, mobile phones in hand, making out before heading back to their cheap hotels. David Fielder, 46, a British rugby referee in town...
...Australian Federal Police, assisting local Indonesian authorities, think there were three bombs in Bali synchronized to wreak maximum havoc. The first explosion--quite small--was inside Paddy's Irish Bar, a popular watering hole. A few seconds later, a slightly more powerful bomb exploded in front of the Sari Club. Then, as terrified customers poured into the street from the bars, came the real thing; a Mitsubishi L300 minivan had pulled up to the sidewalk, packed with C4 high explosive and ammonium nitrate--around the world, the car bomber's favorite recipe. The van blew up. Survivors tell...
...Qaeda activity around the globe. But the possibility that terrorists would strike Bali, a Hindu island in mostly Muslim Indonesia, seemed so remote that several officials from the U.S. embassy in Jakarta decided to spend their Columbus Day weekend there; one of them was relaxing just outside the Sari Club an hour before it blew...
...witnesses say he was standing near a 1-kilogram TNT bomb that detonated on a table inside the popular bar. That explosion sent scores of frantic patrons rushing out?into the range of a far more deadly bomb packed inside a white Mitsubishi minivan parked outside the Sari Club on the opposite side of Jalan Legian, the district's busiest street...
...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 were also detonated by remote control.) "There is no doubt that this was a sophisticated attack," said an Australian Federal Police investigator. High-level police sources tell TIME that one Islamic group is of particular interest: Sulawesi-based Laskar Jundullah, the same...