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I wonder if anyone in the US has heard about the Terrorist attack on the resort island of Bali in the last 12 hours? 182 (many Australians) are possibly dead, 300 are at least injured. Two bombs went off outside night-clubs (both across the road from each other in Bali). I wonder if the American news stations have reported anything about that? I know when looking at Fox News - they were talking about Iraq or J-Lo - one of the two. CNN had Larry King interviewing the star of Battleground Earth. BBC World was reviewing the weeks events.
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Well, over here (UK) both BBC News and ITN have been covering it in quite some detail. The BBc refered to News 24 so I assume thy've got it on as well.
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The death toll is up to nearly 200 people now...when I went to bed it was 50. All I have to say is, it's either Abu Sayyaf or al Qaeda. And if it can happen in Indonesia, it can happen in America.
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Well, it was almost certainly an Islamic group, bali is a predominantly Hindu island and thy targeted Westerners. I know there has been some speculation in the press that the recent messages from bin Laden and that othere guy whose name I forget on Al- Jazeera have been to activate terrorist attacks.
Have they worked out whether that French ship was the victim of an attck yet?
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Well, it has happened in America, if you will remember that the WTC was targeted twice....
And to think, it is only going to get worse....
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British death toll 'may rise to six' according to teletext.
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There was a bombing in Finland not too long ago. Not the act of organized international terrorists, though, apparently.
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I saw on Sky News last night a graphic with flags...
Indonesians (of course) then next highest toll was Australians... at the moment 13 Australians have been confirmed dead.
Their graphic had flags for (off the top of my head)
Indonesia, Australia, UK, Hong Kong, Belgium, Germany, France, New Zealand at least.
Disgusting shits. I heard where one bomb went off infront of a night-club across the street from the Sari Club - then a huge bomb went off right infront of the Sari club... the blast was felt 2km away. There was a person who had arrived home to Perth this morning who said he and a group of friends were on the footpath outside the Sari Club - some of his friends were killed (I think) but him and another friend were thrown back by the blast and were covered in human bodies. They had to pick the body parts off them to get up!
Anyway - the first blast would have made people leave the night-clubs and enter onto the street - where that second bomb would have gone off - getting more people. Arseholes. How coldly calculated is that!?!
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As far as a plan goes, it seemed to have worked out quite nicely.
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Wraith--Yemeni, French, and American investigators all believe the French tanker explosion was a terrorist attack. Bits of fiberglass from a small boat were found in the wrecked ship, as well as traces of TNT. It's similar to the attack on the USS Cole. Only one person was killed.
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The history of warfare is of humans improving ability to efficiently kill other humans. Over thousands of years, humans have progressed from rocks to smart bombs. Our methods of killing are more efficient and devasting than those of our ancestors.
I see a similiar pattern in the use of terrorism. In the first recorded instances of terrorism, the methods were crude and inefficient. For instance, in 1921, white extremists in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma dropped bombs at blacks from an airplane. Luckily, the bombs did minimal damage and no blacks were killed. Decades later, terrorists flew airplances into buildings and killed thousands.
The terrorists are improving in their attacks, and I fear we may see a city destroyed completely and utterly by an attack in our lifetime. We are in a war which will be exacerbated by an arrogant and brash administration.
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Exacerbated?
Not necessarily. You have to remember that Bush has not spent that much time as President. How long have Mr. Atta and Mr. Al-Shehhi have planned for the WTC attacks? Something like that would have taken years to accomplish.
If anything, this only proves that targeting civilians is the soup-du-jour. Why not follow in the footsteps of their so-called "heroes" by blowing up a couple of hundred on your own?
But yes, the present U.S. administration had better watch their attacks. It is better to do this with cooperation rather than the "go-it-alone" approach which could cause a lot of problems on a global scale.
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The recent Finnish bombing of a mall was another of those "lone loonie builds bomb at garage and wants to test" things, apparently. The bastard got killed in the blast himself. Five other dead, one a young girl. About thirty seriously wounded. No political or other exterior motivation to the deed has been uncovered so far.
Another blast, a car bomb, was given more international coverage because it happened near a synagoga in our capital. What the international press failed to realize was that in our capital, no matter where exactly something takes place, it's *always* near the synagoga, or the parliament building, or the presidential palace, or the US embassy. Helsinki just isn't that big a city.
That car bomb was an organized crime revenge. The first of its kind in Finland, although some motorcycle gangs have played with hand grenades before, and there have been disgruntled citizens placing TNT in front of police stations or the local equivalent of IRS headquarters.
Like in the mall bombing, the car bomber nailed himself as well - he had a remote detonation system which lacked in range, so he had to drive past his victim, and the blast threw his own car onto the sidewalk. Can you really call that sort of crime "organized"?
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