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...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, restaurants around the crescent beach of Jimbaran Bay, not far south of Kuta, were attacked. Mangled bodies were laid out on the white sand. There were at least 22 dead. As for the injured, said an emergency...
...expecting. According to Administration officials, the White House plans to use the investigation to win support for changes in government architecture that might otherwise be resisted by Congress or federal employees unions. "We view this as an opportunity to make real improvements," says a senior Administration official. A huge target: FEMA's parent, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). President Bush created the department in a hurry and under duress after the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, and officials say they hope to have a DHS 2.0 running well before he leaves office. --By Mike Allen
...surviving Taliban have disappeared. Eventually a Chinook arrives, first picking up the coalition special-forces unit and then the soldiers from Delta Company. Back at Kandahar air base, the operations commander, Colonel Bertrand Jes, is satisfied with the mission. It isn't clear yet whether Hannan, the prime target, was killed in the bombardment. But as Jes says, "The Taliban had safe havens up in the mountains. They were cocky at first. Not anymore. We've destroyed their support structure." Yet many U.S. officers are worried that as soon as the U.S. forces return to their bases, the Taliban fighters...
...against the Algiers regime, but now appears set on taking its terrorism abroad, officials say. Confidential French intelligence reports reviewed by Time confirm the GSPC has decided within the last six months to internationalize its fight by linking with al-Qaeda-associated groups, and sees France as its primary target. While the GSPC-linked group arrested last week did "have a project to prepare strikes in France," the counterterrorism official notes, it had yet to "determine targets or method of attack, and wasn't operational. Indeed, our strategy is to get cells before it gets that dramatic...
...Crimson’s aerial futility came in the absence of wide receivers Corey Mazza and Rodney Byrnes, both sidelined with injuries. Where last week O’Hagan had an automatic third-down target in Mazza, this week he had a largely inexperienced receiving corps and a Lehigh defense that stymied Harvard’s running game...