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The Bali Horror- a partial Archive
various links | 10-13-02 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

Posted on 10/13/2002 4:46:04 PM PDT by backhoe

This is a partial list of posts from here, and a few from elsewhere, of the Bali terrorist incident.

Remember, this can come to America...

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Indonesia - AFP/Reuters photos of Bali car bomb attack aftermath [Caution - graphic content]
AFP and Reuters via Babelfish translation | October 13, 2002
"And ALL The Cable 'news' networks, including fox, have SUCKED in their (non) coverage of this attack."
'I hope America takes a good look at these pictures.
It could happen here today...'
 
 
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Medical scramble to treat victims
Sydney Morning Herald ^ | October 14 2002 | Mike Seccombe and Catriona Purcell
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Google has a new search engine for news. Here is a link to the latest sources of news on the story --- CLICK.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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KEYWORDS: alqaeda; bali; bombing; indonesia; islam; islamicextremism; jemaahislamiah; terrorism; terroristattack
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State Dept. recalls most US government employees from Indonesia - Urges all Americans to leave
AFP via Babelfish translation ^ | October 14, 2002
 
 
read this awesome piece written by FReeper Gary Montana)

What did we (in America) learn from September 11, 2001 and the deaths of 3,000 people. I am tempted to admit: Absolutely nothing.

Among the many unlearned lessons of Day-Which-Will-Live-In-Infamy-II-- the necessity to control our borders, the need for a patriotic renewal and the importance of combating multiculturalism -- the most significant is the nature of Islam. You will note that I do not say militant Islam, or radical Islam, or Islamic extremism or other such weasel words – but Islam, period.

Every one of the hijackers who flew airliners into the World Trade Center and Pentagon were professing and practicing Moslems, as is Osama bin Laden. The Al Qaeda terrorist network, is based in Moslem countries and supported financially by the so called pious Moslem leadership of Saudi Arabia.

The overwhelming majority of Moslem religious authorities who have spoken out on the subject, including those at the main mosque in Mecca and Egypt’s prestigious Al Azar University, either endorse or rationalize acts of terrorism. On a day when Americans were incinerated or buried under tons of rubble, Muslims from Nigeria to Indonesia, celebrated in the streets.

Sept. 11 was one chapter in a 1400-year jihad. Every day, the World Trade Center massacre is reenacted on a smaller scale somewhere in the world. Jewish women and children are burned alive in a bus in Israel. A missionary is beheaded in the Philippines, gunmen shoot up a church in Pakistan (deliberately firing into the prostrate bodies of women trying to shield their children). Ancient monasteries and convents are destroyed in Kosovo. Women are sentenced to death for adultery in Nigeria, Hindus are murdered in the Kashmir. In Denmark, the Muslim community there has put a $30,000 bounty on the heads of Jews and those who support Israel. Nuns are beheaded in Baghdad, Christians in Sudan are forced into slavery, and in Britain, Islam openly states it is going to take over not only the UK, but the whole world -- and the beat goes on.

Genocide in the Sudan, ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, religious persecution in Saudi Arabia, calls for another holocaust in mosques from Mecca to Gaza, the imposition of Islamic law in Nigeria, forced conversions in Indonesia, synagogues burned in France, Jews attacked across Europe – these are everyday events, as Third World and much of the First slowly turns Islamic green.

Sadly our leaders, from President Bush on down, insist on peddling the absurdity that Islam is a religion of peace – a creed of kindness and benevolence tragically and inexplicably corrupted by fanatics.

Why is the leadership of the West reluctant to confront manifest reality? The reason lies partly with our absurd foreign policy. We have declared certain Moslem nations to be our loyal allies – including Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan. We would not want to offend these dear friends by saying something unflattering about their bloody, butcherly, dark ages faith.

Americans are naturally benevolent. Most of us are taught from childhood that is religion is good (and it does not matter which religion). As long as little Johnny believes in God and goodness, it’s inconsequential whether he lights candles, wears a skull cap to services or prays in the direction of Mecca.

This works with every religion except Islam.

Consider the following: Of the three major western religions: one was started by a lawgiver who helped to free slaves; one by a man of peace; the last one by a man who loved war and having sex with children. Mohammed not only led men into battle, he enjoyed marrying girls as young as six years old (it is in the Koran). The essence of his message is sick and disgusting. A holy war where you slaughter your enemies, while at the same time encouraging followers to have sex with the children they capture (as he did) for the glory of Allah. He even advised his followers to negotiate false peace treaties in order to lull their enemies.

For almost 1,400 years, that has been the reality of Islam. Within a century after the death of Mohammed, Islam spread throughout the Middle East and across North Africa. It overran the Iberian peninsula and was finally stopped in southern France. It spread eastward as far as the southern Philippines. It was not propagated by fresh-faced young men knocking on doors and announcing: “Hello. I’m from your local mosque. Have you considered the Koran?” It was and is spread by force – conversion by the sword or death. This is still in practice today.

Some will respond that all religions go through periods of violence, usually in their infancy. Christianity had its crusades and Inquisition, its forced conversions and expulsions. The evil committed in the name of Christ happened centuries ago. The evil committed in the name of the Prophet is going on now, as you read these words. Of 22 conflicts in the Third World, 20 involve Moslems versus someone else. Coincidence? In his brilliant book, “Clash of Cultures and the Remaking of World Order,” Samuel Huntington speaks of Islam’s “bloody borders.”

There is no Methodist Jihad, no Jewish Hasidic holy warriors, no Buddhist monk wanting to have 72 virgins waiting for him after a suicide bombing, no Hindu Holy men plotting to blow up people, no Southern Baptist suicide bombers, no Mormon elders preaching the annihilation of members of other faiths.

Islam is a warrior religion – the perfect vessel for fanatics, the violence-prone, the envious and haters of all stripes. This is one reason why Islam is making so many converts among the peaceable denizens of our prison system.

Still, much of the West is addicted to a fairy-tale version of Islam. Christian and Jewish clergy fall all over themselves to have interfaith services with imams. Representatives of Moslem groups are invited to the White House. The president signs a Ramadan declaration. In California, public schools ask children to role-play at being Moslems. Our universities take carefully selected verses from the Koran and present them as the essence of the faith. All that’s needed is a Moslem character on “Sesame Street.” Look – it’s the Jihad Monster!

This perspective engenders a fatally false sense of security. Imagine, in 1940, Winston Churchill taking to the airwaves to announce “Nazism is an ideology of peace which, regrettably, has been perverted by a few fanatics like Hitler and Goebbels. But most storm troopers and SS men are fine follows – your friends and neighbors.”

For the first thousand years of its history – from the death of Mohammad to the 17th. century decline of the Ottoman empire, Islam was an expansionist force. For the next 300 years, as the West rose to preeminence, Islam receded. For the past four decades – fueled by Arab oil wealth, a surplus population in the Middle East, the waning of the West and the rise of more virulent strains of the faith (Shiism, Wahhabism, Sunni fundamentalism) – Islam is expanding once more.

Due to Moslem immigration and aggressive proselytizing, Islam is being exported to the West. Moslem populations are burgeoning throughout Western Europe. (In southern France, there are more mosques than churches.) In Judeo-Christian America, Islam is the fastest growing religion. It is also spreading down the coast of West Africa, through the Balkans (after Serbia, Macedonia is the next target) and up from Mindanao in the Philippines.

Wherever it comes, Islam brings its delightful customs – child marriages, female circumcisions, rabid hatred toward Christians, Hindus, Jews, Buddhists and every other non-muslim, terrorism and support for terrorism and a virulent intolerance of other faiths.

Am I suggesting we declare war on over 1 billion million Moslems? The question is moot – Islam has declared war on the rest of the human race. When one side knows it’s at war and the other thinks peace and brotherhood prevail, guess who wins?

Ultimately, it is not about Jews in Israel, or Orthodox Serbs in Kosovo, or Hindus in Kashmir, Buddhists in Thailand, or Maronite Catholics in Lebanon, Taoists in China, or Christians in Sudan and Nigeria, but all of us. As Ben Franklin would have it – Either we will hang together, or surely we shall all hang separately.

34 posted on 10/13/02 11:11 PM Central by GaryMontana


21 posted on 10/14/2002 1:18:25 AM PDT by backhoe
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Two wars (Islam Vs. The West)
WorldNetDaily ^ | October 14, 2002 | Vox Day
"This is not a simple clash of cultures; rather, it is a war against civilization itself."
 
 
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Statement by the President-Bali Bombing
The White House ^ | October 13, 2002 | George W. Bush
 
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We must remain firm in face of terror
The Australian ^ | October 14, 2002
"Before 9/11 we did not know our enemy. After 9/11 we knew..."

22 posted on 10/14/2002 2:02:04 AM PDT by backhoe
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BUMP
23 posted on 10/14/2002 2:20:37 AM PDT by spodefly
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A "thanks for the bump" bump...
24 posted on 10/14/2002 2:46:04 AM PDT by backhoe
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Experts fear attack is first of many (AFTERMATH OF BALI ALERT)

25 posted on 10/14/2002 3:18:15 AM PDT by backhoe
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Bali is the price of indulgence
The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 10/14/2002 | editorial board
 
 
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Scores die in terror blast - Attack on Indonesian island of Bali may have been aimed at U.S.
NYT/AP via The Dallas Morning News ^ | October 13, 2002 | From Wire Reports
Database Here:
BALI; TERRORISM; TERRORIST ATTACK;


26 posted on 10/14/2002 3:33:50 AM PDT by backhoe
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Bali Attack Hits Personally: Jake Young Missing
The Omaha World Herald via ^ | 10/14/02 | Matt Kelley OWH Bureau
More news for those interested


27 posted on 10/14/2002 3:53:28 AM PDT by backhoe
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British death toll rises (BALI UPDATE)

28 posted on 10/14/2002 6:23:56 AM PDT by backhoe
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Indonesia: The enemy within

29 posted on 10/14/2002 6:38:26 AM PDT by backhoe
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U.S. Debates al Qaeda's Role As Bali Death Toll Nears 200

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Indonesian terror groups want to establish Islamic Caliphate in South East Asia
Rediff ^ | Oct 14, 2002 | B Raman
 
 
 
 
Indonesia: The enemy within
Asia Times Online ^ | October, 15, 2002 | Bill Guerin
 
 
Why the Muslims Misjudged Us
city journal ^ | Winter 2002 | Victor Davis Hanson
"The way to reduce terrorism is to kill the terrorisms and to make the heads of Arab governments fear us more than they fear the terrorists or their own street. Appeasement didn't work..."
 
 

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Warning of Threats in Indonesia Left Off Travel Advisory (Bali, Australia)

32 posted on 10/14/2002 1:38:58 PM PDT by backhoe
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U.S. Intelligence: Bali Attack 'Sophisticated'

33 posted on 10/14/2002 5:03:31 PM PDT by backhoe
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The Bali Difference

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Piers Akerman: Atrocity must not go unpunished (VIEW FROM AUSTRALIA)

35 posted on 10/15/2002 3:08:06 AM PDT by backhoe
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BALI: How trail leads to Pakistan

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UN Security Council condemns terrorism in Bali [Connecting the Dots]

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Explosive 'could have come from Indon military' (Bali attack)
Sydney Morning Herald ^ | October 15 2002
"If the Indon army had a part in this, then this just got really, REALLY bad. "
 
 
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Bomb victim heading home to Dallas - TV's 'Most Wanted' to feature half brother sought in attack
The Dallas Morning News ^ | October 15, 2002 | By RICHARD WHITTLE / The Dallas Morning News
 
 
 

38 posted on 10/15/2002 8:02:24 AM PDT by backhoe
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Bleeding hearts left exposed as fools
39 posted on 10/15/2002 8:07:40 AM PDT by Woodman
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The link's appreciated- thanks!
40 posted on 10/15/2002 9:02:41 AM PDT by backhoe
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