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Southeast Asia
Bali bombing headlines...
2002-10-17
From the Straits Times...
Jakarta issues arrest order for Muslim cleric Bashir
Best idea we've heard all month...
Identifying Bali victims a daunting task
Who'd have guessed that identifying the remains of innocents would be daunting? That's never happened before...
Aussies urged to leave Indonesia
The ones with good sense are already gone. They took their wallets with them, too.
Howard fends off flak, flies to Bali
Like he needs flak now... But wait! What flak might that be? How about...
He admitted to parliament on Wednesday that the government had received an intelligence report in September of a rising terrorist threat in Indonesia, and that the report mentioned Bali. But the report was not specific to Bali, he said. 'Nothing was received that could be interpreted as a warning of the bombing that took place,' Mr Howard told Sydney radio 2GB earlier on Thursday morning.
Damn those Merkins! They didn't warn him! They just... just... they just don't care!
Washington ignored CIA Bali warning
See what I mean? But...
Jakarta got US warnings of attack
Make up your daggone mind — if Washington ignored it, what was it they told Jakarta? And why didn't Jakarta tell Howard, so he could rush to Bali and personally escort all the Aussies there back home?
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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