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Three suicide bombers were responsible for the Bali attacks, reports AP:

Maj. Gen. Ansyaad Mbai, one of Indonesia’s top anti-terrorism officials, said Sunday that the three attackers went into the restaurants on wearing explosive vests. The remains of their bodies were found at the scenes, he said.

“I have seen them. All that is left is their head and feet,” he told The Associated Press. “By the evidence we can conclude the bombers were carrying the explosives around the waists.”

Not sure how that squares with the mention here that four unexploded bombs were found after the blasts. Three Australians are now believed dead, together with 12 Indonesians. Among the 101 wounded: 49 Indonesians, 17 Australians, six Koreans, three Japanese and two Americans. Muslims weren’t behind the attacks, claims Indonesia Council Of Holy Warriors spokesman Fauzan Al Anshari: “This is a grand design to again put Muslim people and Ustadz (honored cleric) Abu into a corner.”

UPDATE. One dead in Oklahoma, where a suicide bomber apparently intended killing only himself.

UPDATE II. Australian rugby player Mick Collis, in Bali for a competition, says he was warned of the Bali attacks by an Australian resident:

“We got up here on the Wednesday and on the Thursday he said to us they had found some detonators around the place and then he said that some of his contacts he had - he called them sort of the Bali mafia - they had warned him.

“They said ‘look, with the guys coming up, if you are white, don’t come into town on the Saturday night’.

“We just thought, well, we didn’t need to be told twice.

“We’re not the brightest of people - rugby players - but a warning like that sunk in pretty quick.”

UPDATE III. A second Australian death, that of a 48-year-old NSW woman, is confirmed.

UPDATE IV. Travel agencies report a rush of Bali cancellations.

UPDATE V. A report out of Kuwait claims 11 Britons are confirmed dead. Most likely this is wrong.

UPDATE VI. Australian Peter Hughes, a survivor of the 2002 Bali attacks: “I feel we’re pretty much a soft target and I don’t want it to happen, but I just feel we need to be more aware, because these guys are crazy.”

Posted by Tim B. on 10/01/2005 at 10:31 PM
  1. “This is a grand design to again put Muslim people and Ustadz (honored cleric) Abu into a corner>”

    Can we recommend a corner containing a firing squad?

    —Nora

    Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2005 10 01 at 11:46 PM • permalink

  2. This is a grand design to murder Infidels.

    Next up: Jews, gays, retarded people, the infirm, old people, any one who won’t bow to sharia law, any non muslim.

    ” we come in peace ”

    Posted by 13times on 2005 10 02 at 12:03 AM • permalink

  3. “This is a grand design to again put Muslim people and Ustadz (honored cleric) Abu into a corner.”

    Ahh, it must have been the Evil Joooos(tm) then. It all makes sense now…

    Posted by RainDog on 2005 10 02 at 12:05 AM • permalink

  4. I caught Father Brian Deegan on cable news and what a gutter crawling, lick spittle, perforated camels uterus he is. The bodys havent even been counted and the tosspot was on doing the whole “because of Afghanistan, Iraq” ect routine.
    News flash for Mr Brennan, 95% of Australians will spit in your face if you try this line on them. Dont believe me then come to the mine I work at not a lefty sheltered workshop and try. (rant off)

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2005 10 02 at 12:31 AM • permalink

  5. Ooops meant to be Deegan not Brennan. my bad

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2005 10 02 at 12:50 AM • permalink

  6. Obviously we’re not trying hard enough to appease them:

    Muslims win toy pigs ban
    NOVELTY pig calendars and toys have been banned from a council office — in case they offend Muslim staff.

    Appease harder everyone! Have you apologised to an Islamofascist today?

    /moonbat

    Posted by Art Vandelay on 2005 10 02 at 01:01 AM • permalink

  7. yes, rovestein strikes again, implicating innocent jihadis who only want to care for crippled children & lost kittens

    Posted by KK on 2005 10 02 at 01:04 AM • permalink

  8. Brace yourself for a familiar media ritual.

    ‘1/10 was terrible BUT…’

    i.e. The Islamist butchers are right; we DO deserve it.

    Posted by Inurbanus on 2005 10 02 at 01:24 AM • permalink

  9. Councillor Mahbubur Rahman, a practising Muslim, backed the ban. He said: “It’s a tolerance of people’s beliefs.”

    Europe first, next the UK and then the world. I wonder if he would tolerate my cowhide work boots kicked up his ass.

    Bow to your Muslim overlords.

    Posted by 13times on 2005 10 02 at 01:41 AM • permalink

  10. #9

    The wise Councillor urges us to tolerate his intolerance.

    Posted by Inurbanus on 2005 10 02 at 01:44 AM • permalink

  11. Try lodging a complaint with the Dudley Council and get a lesson in nanny state bureaucracy and political correctness.

    Posted by Inurbanus on 2005 10 02 at 01:48 AM • permalink

  12. TV news is reporting that there are some cancellations, but many people, including some with children (!) at Perth International are still going to catch today’s Garuda flight to Denpasar, Bali.

    Despite the revised DFAT warnings, the still unconfirmed death toll, the very big possibility that white people are the terrorists targets, these idiots still want to go to Bali.
    Are they completely mad, or just living in a dream world where nothing nasty ever happens?

    Unbelievable.

    Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2005 10 02 at 02:31 AM • permalink

  13. The loud noise of the explosion could be heard clearly inside Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, where 84,000 people were watching…. 

    How does this statement:

    “We are apparently dealing with an individual suicide, which is under full investigation”.

    square with this:

    A police bomb squad detonated explosives found at the site of the blast. The area near the stadium was searched by bomb-sniffing dogs.

    So someone commits suicide by exploding some device, but more explosives are found near the suicide location? The headline should be:

    Suicide bomber fails to detonate in packed OKC Stadium.

    sub headline should read as:

    300 more yards and hundreds would have been killed or wounded.

    Posted by 13times on 2005 10 02 at 02:38 AM • permalink

  14. Live free or die, I guess.

    And it’s not like Islamists target children or anything ... um, strike that, but if they (the terrorists) continue to target bars the children are less likely to get hurt.

    Posted by Andjam on 2005 10 02 at 02:40 AM • permalink

  15. It’s clear that Indonesia must bring home their troops from Afganistan and Iraq if they are to satisfy the jihadis. Oh wait…...

    Posted by Abu Qa'Qa on 2005 10 02 at 03:48 AM • permalink

  16. Survivor saw bomb thrown.

    Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2005 10 02 at 04:05 AM • permalink

  17. Jennifer Williamson from Newcastle NSW was named as a victim of the terrorist blast. Here’s earlier pics of her at the scene of the blast where she seemed to be ok . Warning - very very graphic.

    Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2005 10 02 at 04:14 AM • permalink

  18. Getty images dont link directly to the pics which is probably a good thing. If you’re especially morbid you can find them tho.
    I’m off to watch the footy grand final which is probably Haram and punishable by death under Sharia law.

    Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2005 10 02 at 04:25 AM • permalink

  19. So let me get this straight.
    This Collis character was warned to stay away from town on saturday night.  He made sure his mates did not go to town, but did not contact authorities, or at least the consulate so that it could go through more anonymous channels?

    Posted by entropy on 2005 10 02 at 06:18 AM • permalink

  20. Enough about that towering intellect.

    He is an interesting quote I read in the SF Chronicle

    The bombers may also have wanted to capitalize on unrest in Indonesia prompted by a drastic increase in fuel prices. The blasts came on the same day that the price of fuel more than doubled. Yudhoyono’s government is trying to reduce oil subsidies that were expected to exceed $13 billion this year. The price increase sparked small protests around the country.

    Posted by entropy on 2005 10 02 at 07:05 AM • permalink

  21. “If you are not a bit left when you are young, you have no heart. If you stay that way into maturity you have no head (or feet).”

    Posted by blogstrop on 2005 10 02 at 07:07 AM • permalink

  22. Blogstrop: That is merely a self justification of their past behaviour by lefties who were mugged by reality.  At least they had the sense to learn.

    Posted by Steve at the pub on 2005 10 02 at 07:16 AM • permalink

  23. #20 So it’s all about the oil, then?

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2005 10 02 at 07:46 AM • permalink

  24. Entropy,I’m with you.Know rugby players are rumoured to be a sandwich short of a picnic but how stupid/selfish can one idiot be?He should be charged with an offence even if its only dumb or dumber…

    Posted by crash on 2005 10 02 at 08:58 AM • permalink

  25. Another Oklahoma student was arrested earlier trying to board an airline flight with a pipe bomb in his backpack… said he “forgot” it was in there…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 10 02 at 04:23 PM • permalink

  26. Keep an eye on the Oklahoma story.  They did find another bomb and are searching for two men seen running into the stadium after the blast.  The cone of silence about the identity is the same as the July 4(2002?) shooting at LAX.  Big silence, then we see FBI carrying away the perp’s computer from his apartment.  Only then did they announce a name.

    They’re looking for the bomber’s buddies.

    I hope.

    Posted by Patricia on 2005 10 02 at 04:50 PM • permalink

  27. Oklahoma bomber ID’d

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 10 02 at 05:40 PM • permalink

  28. And before we get onto that canard about some bombers being WASPs, backtrack to this Oklahoma story.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2005 10 02 at 09:37 PM • permalink

  29. From a comment on my blog:

    How do we know the CIA and Mossad were behind the Bali bombing? We don’t, not exactly, but we do know they have done similar things in the past.

    How do I know that the commenter who wrote this is someone who loves to cut-and-paste boilerplate Loony Green Conspiracy theories in comments? We do exactly, because we have evidence, facts, stuff like that.
    Stuff the moonbats find just gets in the way. Far too predictable really.
    But at least he’s polite, unlike most of his ilk.

    Posted by Zoe Brain on 2005 10 03 at 04:01 AM • permalink

  30. Three Aussies dead and others fighting for their lives in Darwin and Singapore.

    Once our diggers returned home with shrapnel wounds; now it is Australian women and teenagers.

    Our thoughts and prayers are with all the victims of this outrage.

    Posted by Inurbanus on 2005 10 03 at 08:02 AM • permalink

  31. #20 - (re bombings reacting to fuel prices) - unlikely as these outrages take weeks or months to plan. Fuel prices rose in the past couple of weeks.

    Speaking of the SF Chronicle - here’s a great example of MSM manipulation:

    A photo exposed.

    History might have been different if digital cameras and instant citizen reporting had been around in the days of the Vietnam moratiums. I reckon there would have been a different story to be told.

    Posted by walterplinge on 2005 10 03 at 05:00 PM • permalink

  32. Amen to that!

    Posted by blogstrop on 2005 10 03 at 05:30 PM • permalink

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