Posted on 10/13/2002 9:58:20 AM PDT by HAL9000
At least 25 people, including ten foreigners, perished shredded or carbonized and 125 were wounded at the time of one bombing against a nightclub, which sowed panic with Bali, principal tourist destination of Indonesia, according to the police force and hospitals'. STR.
At least 53 people, whose many foreigners, perished shredded or carbonized and more than one hundred were wounded at the time of one bombing against a nightclub, which sowed panic with Bali. Darma.
Fires after the explosions in two places of the seaside resort of Kuta Beach, in the island indonésienne of Bali. At least 182 people died and 132 others wounded in what the head of the police force indonésienne described as act of "terrorism". catch on October 12, 2002/Rakadeni/Radar Bali Newspapers REUTERS
Air sight of the discotheque Sari in Kuta, on the island indonésienne of Bali, after the explosion of a booby-trapped car Saturday evening. Attacks which have occurred in three points different from this island very appraisal of the foreign tourists made at least 182 died and 132 wounded. catch on October 13, 2002/Bali Adventure Turns REUTERS
Bodies covered with a white cloth lie on the ground in the streets of Kuta Beach, in the island indonésienne of Bali the shortly after the double explosion in a discotheque. The last assessment gives a report on at least 182 dead and 132 wounded, including four French. catch on October 13, 2002/REUTERS TV
Bags containing the bodies of the victims of the explosions occurred Saturday evening on the island indonésienne of Bali are gathered close to the debris of the Sari discotheque, in the sector of Kuta Beach. The last assessment gives a report on 182 dead and 132 wounded among which five French. catch the 13 ocotbre 2002/REUTERS
A violent one sets fire to started after the explosion which occurred in a discotheque of Kuta Beach, in the island indonésienne of Bali, making at least 182 dead of which much from abroad. This attack and a series of indices would confirm that the network islamist Al Qaïda d' Oussama Ben Laden remains very active more than one year after the attacks of September 11, or at least made followers able to strike with terrible effects. of screen of October 12 2002 REUTERS TV
Several European capitals required of their nationals to avoid from now on Bali. Going further, Washington planned to reduce its diplomatic personnel in Indonesia. Darma.
At least 182 people, whose very many foreigners, perished shredded or carbonized by the explosion of a booby-trapped car Saturday evening in the tourist island of Bali. Darma
The president Megawati Sukarnoputri gave an assessment, still provisional with "a great number from abroad who died or were wounded". She went to the site. Oka Budhi.
At least 182 people, whose very many foreigners, perished shredded or carbonized and 132 others were wounded by the explosion of a booby-trapped car which devastated a night club and a bar restoring Saturday evening in the island indonésienne of Bali. Land Cyril.
The explosion was followed by a gigantic fire which destroyed the two establishments, of the close buildings, the trade and made rage during several hours. Darma.
He could have said anything, he did not even have to mention Islam.
But claiming that Islam is a religion of peace is just shows how misinformed most Americans are.
Never say never. Americans don't yet have the stomach for what is required but, two things:
1) Things will get worse here and throughout the West soon and, as my father was fond of saying, desperate times call for desperate measures.
2) Because we have become a nation/socoety of cowardly, PC leftists, doesn't mean the entire world has. India, for example, may well just exterminate Pakistan completely and do us the favor of exterminating Afghanistan while they're at it. Israel may well exterminate the Palsetinians and who is to say where a stray warhead might go?
There are still people with stomachs in America too. The trick is to avoid catching them when they begin to do America's dirty work for the rest of us.
You might be safe in Malaysia, but I wouldn't be in Jakarta or Bangkok now.
Heck, if worse comes to worse you can catch that boat out of Mersing and go out to Tioman.
187 dead: Australia's wake-up call
By IRWIN FIRDAUS in Bali
14oct02
THE fatal bombing of a Bali nightclub has delivered the evils of terrorism to our doorstep, Prime Minister John Howard warned yesterday.
At least 187 people were dead, including a "significant" number of Australians, while another 300 suffered horrific injuries.
The famed Sari nightspot in Bali's party district was packed with Australian holidaymakers when a car bomb exploded about 11pm on Saturday.
It is the first time terrorists have directly targeted Australians since the September 11 attacks in the US and could be the nation's greatest loss of life overseas during peacetime.
Describing the attacks as "cowardly" and "barbaric", Mr Howard said Australians must realise that our country was not immune from the dangers of terrorism.
"People should get out of their minds that it can't happen here; it can, and it has happened to our own on our doorstep," he said.
Seven Australians were confirmed dead last night but the death toll is expected to climb much higher.
Hospital staff in Bali said many of the bodies were charred beyond recognition and were difficult to identify.
"We must prepare ourselves for the possibility of a significant number of Australian deaths amongst the fatalities," Mr Howard added.
The attack, in which at least two South Australians are feared dead, has sparked an urgent security review of Australian government offices overseas.
Two separate blasts went off just as nightclubs in the famous Kuta district were filling about 11pm – a smaller one, and then a few seconds later a huge explosion that left a 1.5m-deep crater in the road in front of the popular Sari Club at Kuta Beach.
The bars were packed with Australians, many of them footballers from NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia on end-of-season tours.
In other developments:
INCLUDED in the missing are two people from the Sturt Football Club, a trainer and a Reserves player, seven from a Perth football club and three from a NSW rugby team. Sturt player Julian Burton is in hospital suffering from burns and other injuries.
THE South Australian Government chartered two Lear jets with seven specialist medical critical care staff to help treat the injured.
A MEETING of the national security committee of Cabinet will be held today.
TWO RAAF Hercules aircraft with specialist medical teams were sent from Sydney to Bali to help treat the victims and to evacuate the injured to Australia.
QANTAS also scheduled extra flights into Bali to help evacuate any Australians wanting to leave the island. The first two flights were due in Sydney early this morning.
INDONESIAN President Megawati Sukarnoputri said the bomb blasts were a warning that terrorism was a threat to the country's security.
Witnesses described horrific scenes immediately after the explosion, with body parts scattered across the site and on the roofs of surrounding buildings.
"There are charred and mangled bodies everywhere, it is unbelievable," said French photographer Cyril Terrien.
Bloodied survivors fled the bar, some with limbs blown off.
Cars and motorbikes on the road in front were alight, forming a wall of flames blocking people's escape.
The first bomb blast ignited a huge blaze that collapsed the flimsy roof structure, trapping hundreds of revellers inside.
"I saw people on fire," said Richard Hechnier, 29, of Perth.
"Many people were carrying others. Most were bleeding. Everything was on fire. It was chaos. It was dark except for the flames."
He later returned to the club to help rescue workers.
"There were bodies all over the floor of the bar. So many bodies were just black mounds, some were red," Mr Hechnier said.
The blasts came three days after the US State Department issued a worldwide alert for terror attacks and highlighted fears by the US and others that Indonesia – the most populous Muslim nation – was becoming a haven for terrorists and active al-Qaeda operatives.
No one claimed responsibility but Foreign Minister Alexander Downer pointed to the extremist Jemaah Islamiyah movement.
"Jemaah Islamiyah – JI as it's known – does have links to al-Qaeda, it has financial as well as personnel links to al-Qaeda, and it's conceivable that an organisation like that could be behind this action," he said.
Australian tourist Rachael Hughes, 18, had just arrived in Kuta when the blast smashed her hotel room window.
"In the foyer of the Bounty Hotel people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin coming off them," she said.
Australian tourists have been told to cancel all plans or bookings for travel to Bali.
In September, the US Embassy in Jakarta was closed for six days due to what US Ambassador Ralph Boyce called a "credible and specific threat", that he suggested was linked to the al-Qaeda terror network.
Police had no immediate motive for the blasts.
Last month, a hand grenade exploded in a car near a house belonging to the US Embassy in Jakarta, killing the man suspected of handling it.
Actually, I would consider Bangkok and Singapore to be the two safest cities at the moment in SE Asia.
The situation in Malaysia is getting bad as well
Sorry my friend, but I must disagree.
You cannot go after the perps with due process - that is a losing game with these genecidal maniacs. You must make it so painful for the governments who house and look the other way while these maniacs operate so that their governments realize that if they do not go after these maniacs their countries will be bombed back into the stone age. Once their governments realize this they will put an end to this in self interest.
Conversion by the sword is central to Islamic theology. A They decline to censure or display disapproval towards the terrorists, because the terrorists are behaving exactly the way their religion says all Muslims should behave
As far as I'm concerned, any Islamic cleric who gives verbal support to Islamic violence is a co-conspirator and should be executed right along with the actual bombers
Immediately taking over Iraq and "disappearing" Hussein would re-establish a precedent lost when the Islamists took over the American Embassy in Iran all those years ago. They have deluded themselves into thinking we are "soft."
Ppphhht!!
Rome put up with quite a bit from Carthage before finally deciding they'd had enough of Carthage. Do not assume the attitude is buried too deep for it to surface again.
Yes, this condition is very dangerous to American citizens.
Thanks to the Politically Correct BS from the news media and the lawmakers wearing their ridiculous PC attitudes, this nation is in danger of being ruined, and with the blessing of the liberals. These liberals are aiding the terrorists efforts.
It is time to get rid of the PC _bs.
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