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Monday, October 1, 2012
Suicide Bombers Strike in Bali - 2005
On this date in 2005, suicide bombers strike three
restaurants in two tourist areas on the Indonesian island of Bali.
The bombings killed 22 people, including the bombers, and
injured more than 50 others. This was the second suicide-bombing incident to
rock the island in less than three years.The blasts occurred nearly
simultaneously, hitting two outdoor restaurants in the Jimbaran beach resort
and a third in Kuta, a tourist center about 19 miles away. The attacks, like
those in 2002, were thought to be the work of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), an extremist
Islamist militant group with links to al-Qaida. JI is also believed to be
responsible for the bombing of a Marriott hotel in Jakarta in 2003 that
resulted in the deaths of 12 people and of the Australian embassy in Indonesia
in 2004, in which 10 people died. Though Indonesia is the most populous Muslim
nation in the world, the island of Bali is mainly Hindu.
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Very sad & tragic. And it brings you up short when you remember Bali bomber Umar Patek recently got just 20 years (the same as Schapelle received for 4.2 kilos of marijuana), for helping to murder over 200 people and badly injure many more. Also a Herald Sun press report of 16 June 2010 headlined this "Only 13 of 70 Bali bombings and Jakarta embassy terrorists remain in prison." It's just crazy. And here's some commentary from Bali bomb survivor Jake Ryan about that: http://womenforschapelle.blogspot.com/2012/09/schapelle-corby-bali-bomb-victim.html
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