Bali Blasts Kill More Than 100 [3 bombs not 2]

Reuters ^ | 10/12/02

[Miss Marple]

Fox News reporting now that members of an Australian football team may have been victims.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for the post.

I've always found it interesting that certain religions damn others to the point that they think it's okay to randomly kill as many of their innocents as possible. Should some of their own people get killed in the process, it's still okay. Allah be praised.

We'll have to wait for the outcome, but it appears that religion of peace is at it again.

[Sungirl]

I wonder what the 'targets' were.

[esmith]

Fox News now reporting l50 dead.

[Liberty Teeth]

I have heard that Bali is a wonderful place to vacation. These poor people were there to enjoy themselves and in an instant they are gone. How horrible.

[Bobby777]

CNN dot com is saying at least 118 ... 118 or 150 ... it's terrible ...

[doug from upland]

[kezekiel]

Sounds like Laskar Jihad. Those cheesebags are totally brutal, especially to Christians. They like to hack up unarmed Christians with machetes.

[Thane_Banquo]

More death and destruction from Satan's religion.

[blam]

"More death and destruction from Satan's religion."

How long before mosques full of people all over the world start going BOOM!

[seeker41]

Facts about Bali, a popular tourist island in Indonesia:
PEOPLE: Most of Bali's 3 million people are Hindu, unlike the rest of Indonesia's 207 million people who are predominantly Muslim. Most are indigenous islanders, but many come from other parts of Indonesia. In urban centers, there are small Indian, Arab, and ethnic Chinese communities. Bali has a relaxed lifestyle and culture, which unlike many other parts of Indonesia is tolerant of alcohol consumption and the demands of Western vacationers, including night life.

POLITICS: Bali has remained relatively immune from the political, religious and ethnic strife that has wracked the country for the past five years during its transition from three decades of dictatorship to democracy. Most Balinese supported President Megawati Sukarnoputri's party in the last elections in 1999.

ECONOMY: Known as the Island of the Gods, Bali has been one of the world's most popular tourist destination for decades. The likelihood of the blast scaring away hundreds of thousands of tourists could be a devastating blow to not only the island's economy but that of the whole of Indonesia, which is struggling to recover from the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s. Kuta, where the deadly bomb blast occurred, is the epicenter of the tourist trade. It is filled with hundreds of restaurants, cheap hotels and gift shops. Almost every night, the streets are filled with tourists dancing and drinking until the wee hours of the morning. The island also has a handicraft industry and agriculture.

GEOGRAPHY: Bali is a small tropical island measuring approximately 90 miles by 60 miles and is one of 17,508 islands that comprise Indonesia. Located about 560 miles east of Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, Bali is best known for its luxury holiday resorts, black sand beaches, hundreds of Hindu temples, sweeping coastlines and dozens of volcanoes.

[Cinnamon Girl]

That's weird... you'd think, since Indonesia is 85% Muslim, it would be one of the most peaceful places on earth....

[spodefly]

... the government has concerns about cracking down on radical Muslim groups for fear of upsetting the vast moderate mainstream.

Kill them all, let allah sort them out ...

[Musket]

How long before the world bans Islam and exterminates Muslims? Tick, tick, tick........

[dixiechick2000]

Top Stories - Reuters

Death Toll in Bali Blasts 150, Mostly Foreigners

Sat Oct 12,10:33 PM ET

JAKARTA (Reuters) - One-hundred-and-fifty people have been killed in bomb blasts on Indonesia's resort island of Bali, a hospital official said Sunday.

He estimated some 75 percent were foreigners.

"There are 150 dead," Sanga Hospital communications chief Dr. Puta Putra Wisade told Reuters by telephone. Asked his estimate of how many were not Indonesians, he said: "Seventy-five percent are foreigners."

Three explosions occurred nearly simultaneously late on Saturday night in Bali. Police have said the blasts, one of which occurred near a U.S. honorary consulate, were caused by homemade bombs.

[spodefly]

How long before mosques full of people all over the world start going BOOM!

Not soon enough.

[Guindog]

Bali is known as a great surfing destination. Surfers from all over the world come here, but especially from the U.S. and Australia.

[cinFLA]

I have heard that Bali is a wonderful place to vacation.

I was in Bali two years ago and while I had a good time, I was very disappointed. Not like the hype I had heard. Went to the next island west (Lombok) and enjoyed it much more. Only there weren't the hundreds of topless women in Lombok as is Bali. It was filled with Aussies and French and I almost never saw another American.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

The dead included nationals from Australia, Britain, France, Germany, New Zealand and Sweden and Indonesia's police chief said terrorism was possibly to blame.

Earth to France...