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« on: Oct 13^th, 2002, 4:41am »

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Why Bali? Is all I can ask. This idyllic island of peaceful people. Why?

Two simultaneous bomb blasts occurred in two popular night clubs in tourist areas of the island. Another near a US consulate. The deaths and injuries have overcome the medical facilities of the islands and nationals from many countries have been killed or injured. No indication of any Canadian or American deaths but other countries sadly include Australia, Britain, France, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden and Indonesia.

Here is a link to more details at cnn.com http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/10/13/bali.blast/index.h tml

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« Reply #1 on: Oct 13^th, 2002, 4:44am »

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There is an indication that these bombings are Al quaeda related. Bali is part of Indonesia where there is muslim strife but not in Bali - well not until now.

On Thursday, the State Department warned posts abroad about the possibility of a terrorist attack by Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, alerting all posts to be at the "highest level of vigilance," a senior State Department official told CNN.

The warning followed the release of an audiotape, believed to be the voice of Ayman al-Zawahiri, one of bin Laden's top lieutenants, warning of future attacks by al Qaeda.

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« Reply #2 on: Oct 13^th, 2002, 11:37am »

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Many football and rugby players from Australia were in the Bali nightclub at the time of the explosion. Other Australians also were killed, and at least 113 Australians were injured, officials said.

"At this point in time we have seven unaccounted for," said Brian Andersen of Australia's Kingsley Football Club. "We found one this morning in hospital with burns but we can't get any other information regarding the other seven at this stage."

My thoughts go out to our Australian friends who, like us, woke up to this tragic news today. There are many Australians in the Survivor community. Prayers for all.

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« Reply #3 on: Oct 13^th, 2002, 3:46pm »

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This is very sad to hear. Sad

My thoughts go out to all those who lost someone or have been personally touched by this tragedy. Cry

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Big Brother connection to Bali Death?
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I didn't watch BB1 or BB2 and therefore don't know exactly what this means. The quote below is part of a list of missing people from the Bali bombings

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« Reply #5 on: Oct 26^th, 2002, 9:02am »

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The quote refers to a contestent from the 2nd Australian BB series. It only finished mid July or so and Jessica was the 4th last person voted out. Her brother is still missing and it looks like he has been killed. They are still trying to identify many of the dead as they are badly burnt and mutilated but as with the WTC attacks some people that were feared dead have turned up alive.

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« Reply #6 on: Oct 26^th, 2002, 11:44am »

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Thanks for that explanation zeldaron.

PS only at the very end of posting to this thread did I happen to notice .....

WELCOME AUSSIEKER!!!

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Al-Qaeda says it carried out Bali blast
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The al-Qaeda terrorist network said it carried out last month's bombing on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, CNN reported.

The group led by Osama bin Laden said it had attacked "nightclubs and whorehouses in Indonesia" in a web site message which was translated by CNN.com.

More than 190 people were killed when a huge car bomb went off outside Bali's Sari nightclub on Oct 12.

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Police Hunt Two Brothers Over Bali Attack
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BALI, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesia announced a fresh breakthrough in the Bali bombing probe on Tuesday, with police hunting two brothers of a man who has confessed to involvement in the blasts that killed more than 180 people.

Major-General Made Mangku Pastika, head of a multinational team searching for the Bali bombers, identified the brothers of their chief suspect, Amrozi, as Ali Imron and Ali Fauzi and said they had buried an arms cache near their village.

He said they had formally been named suspects over the attacks. Both are teachers at a conservative Islamic boarding school at the family's small village in East Java province.

Police said they suspected about 10 people were involved in the October 12 attacks that destroyed nightclubs in Bali's popular Kuta Beach area, although they declined to release more names. They have previously said the 10 were all Indonesians.

The world's most populous Muslim nation has been under enormous international pressure to make progress in the investigation of the attack, the most devastating in the world since the September 11, 2001, attacks in New York and Washington.

Asked by reporters what the two brothers had been named suspects over, Pastika said: "Of course, over the Bali bombing case. And (a) case of illegal possession of weapons."

Police said on Monday Amrozi was a student of detained Indonesian Muslim preacher Abu Bakar Bashir, the alleged spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiah, a Southeast Asian militant group linked to the Bali blasts and the al Qaeda network, which has been blamed for the September 11, 2001 attacks.

In Jakarta, police said they would ignore Bashir's refusal to cooperate in a probe over Christian church bombings in Indonesia in 2000 and a plot to kill the president, and finish the investigation and lodge their case with state prosecutors.

Bashir, 64, has not been directly linked to the Bali attacks.

BURIED GUNS
Speaking earlier at a news conference on the resort island, Pastika said Imron and Fauzi had buried a cache of weapons that Amrozi had given them in neighboring East Java.

Pastika said the stash comprised seven guns, including two M-16 rifles and 5,000 rounds of ammunition that had been hidden in a forest not far from Amrozi's village of Tenggulun.

"The weapons were buried there by Ali Imron and Ali Fauzi on November 7. Amrozi gave them to these people, whom we are now looking for," Pastika said at the news conference.

Deputy national police spokesman Edward Aritonang said a brother whom he identified as Gufron was a Bali attack suspect.

Indonesian police say they believe the bombers are hiding out in the country.

Police have said they had found no evidence linking Bashir to the Bali attacks, which killed mostly foreign tourists.

He has denied any wrongdoing, and since being arrested on October 18, been hospitalised in central Java and Jakarta.

Bashir's refusal to cooperate had raised the prospect of a long standoff between police and the cleric, who has mustered a formidable legal team and captured public sympathy in Indonesia from many who see his arrest as the result of foreign pressure.

FOREIGNERS PRAY IN KUTA

In the village of Tenggulun where the three brothers lived, a 60-year-old mother grappled with the notion some of her sons were suspected of being behind the Bali blasts.

"How can my children be hunted like this? They're good people," said Tariyem on Tuesday, her wrinkled brow lined with anxiety as she sat on the floor of her modest home.

In Kuta Beach, a group of foreigners, most of them Australians, held white balloons and flowers at a sunset commemoration service for the Bali bombing victims.

Earlier in the day, a Balinese family held a traditional funeral for one of the victims, Kadek Margarini, who died of her injuries after being airlifted to Darwin, Australia.

Often portrayed as bumbling and corrupt, Indonesia's police have made progress in the Bali bomb probe, helped by foreign expertise and mistakes made by the bombers.

From what was left of the minivan, police were able to determine from the chassis number that the owner was Amrozi, even though attempts had been made to alter the number.

A red motorbike found outside a mosque in Denpasar, Bali's local capital, soon after the blasts, also left incriminating clues -- residue from the explosives used in the attacks.

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