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BALI BLASTS
Another apparent bomb attack in Bali:
At least three Western tourists have been injured in a series of bombings in Bali, almost three years to the day that terrorists killed 200 people in a similar attack.
A local radio station on the Indonesian island said the explosions went off along Jimbaran beach and in Kuta, both popular tourist destinations.
It was in the town of Kuta on October 12, 2002 that terrorists associated with al Qaida set off two bombs close to each other that killed 202 people - including 26 Britons - and injured another 209.
UPDATE. Eight dead and 13 injured, reports the Associated Press.
UPDATE II. Several victims are being sent to Sanglah Hospital in Denpasar, where a burns unit was donated by the Australian government following the 2002 Bali bombings.
UPDATE III. The Jakarta Post now reports nine dead and 40 injured, while Reuters has the death toll at 12—many of them foreigners.
UPDATE IV. Indian media reports 30 dead in three explosions, and says a hunt has begun for Malaysian Islamists:
Police were searching for two Malaysian fugitives - Azahari and Noordin - accused of being behind the attacks. The two are believed to be senior members of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) regional terror group.
UPDATE V. Azahari Husin and Noordin Top are both wanted over last year’s attack on the Australian embassy in Jakarta that killed 10.
UPDATE VI. Two Americans are among at least 19 dead, according to AP.
UPDATE VII. An Australian is among 23 dead, reports AFP.
UPDATE VIII. A Japanese woman is among those killed.
UPDATE IX. Sangla Hospital says eight Australians, two Americans and 28 Indonesians have been admitted with injuries. The Department of Foreign Affairs number to call for Australian information: 1800 002 214.
Ok BBC now reporting AP as saying nineteen dead now, the absolute bastards.
Posted by Harry Flashman on 2005 10 01 at 10:55 AM • permalinkI was having a drink in Padi’s and Sari’s but a few weeks before the Jihadists decided to blow it up.
Kinda rubbed in my new-found status as an ex-lefty-sympathiser, and confirmed my new views of the the lay of the land as 9/11 conversative.
Fuck these arseholes, they’re getting weak.
Look at these pussies, all they’ve got is a handful of tourists.
I have all the sympathy in the world for those tourists, but really…
..fuck the terrorists, those guys are getting sad.
All they can come up with is barely a handful of dead surfers.
Terrorists hope to destroy our society, but the best they got is blowing-up some freedom-loving good-time-seeking young men.
And our surfers keep on surfing…
..so God blesss our Surfers, and let’s keep ‘em Surfin’, and doing what they believe is the Aussie Way.
-jules
Posted by heethcliff on 2005 10 01 at 11:14 AM • permalinkNever a truer word, heethcliff mate, normally I haven’t much time for the surfy types, they usually get up my nose but as you rightly point out they’re heroes in this case, so here’s from me;
SURF ON DUDE!
Posted by Harry Flashman on 2005 10 01 at 11:22 AM • permalinkBBC now saying one Aussie confirmed dead.
Posted by Harry Flashman on 2005 10 01 at 11:24 AM • permalinkcheers mate -
as long as the Surfies are hanging out there, those fuckers that think that surfing is wrong (Mommamud said it somewhere, I’m sure), good on our awesome Aussie men having a good time surfing the world.
That’s what makes us great - that any Aussie man can can go surf anywhere on our planet, if he wants, and he’ll be met with open arms in any civilised country he goes to.
Unfortunately it don’t happen everywhere…
-jules
Posted by heethcliff on 2005 10 01 at 11:34 AM • permalinkReuter’s alertnet-
12 dead ,41 injured, 35 foreigners. One minute old when I read it-five by the time I post-other stories of Bali listed at this site at their newsdesk with frequent updates.
Posted by madawaskan on 2005 10 01 at 11:38 AM • permalinkThere is a name of one of the dead being posted on Metro TV, he’s listed as “European” but to be honest it sounds Aussie, Aussie first name Irish surname I won’t post it as I doubt his relatives have been informed. A Japanese and three Indonesians have also been identified.
Posted by Harry Flashman on 2005 10 01 at 11:52 AM • permalinkPhoto of the restuarant that was bombed-shit looks like a big place-
Posted by madawaskan on 2005 10 01 at 12:07 PM • permalinkIf you check out littlegreenfootballs they have a link to Getty photos of the Jimbaran blast, be warned though it’s not a pretty sight.
Posted by Harry Flashman on 2005 10 01 at 12:13 PM • permalink“... and says a hunt has begun for Malaysian Islamists”
Now, now, mustn’t jump to conclusions. Could be one of those militia types, stirred up by listening to Rush Limbaugh.
Posted by Buzz Crutcher on 2005 10 01 at 12:29 PM • permalinkHarry-
Ya- Reuter’s had what they called rough footage with bodies and I wouldn’t recommend it-it gets vulture like…
The photo I linked to -I thought it was a two story but I think I am getting the wrong perspective.
Seems like the Reuter’s link stinks too.
I’m hoping the numbers are accidently getting inflated-but it looks like there is multiple blasts, cities and hospitals so somehow it is a co-ordinated effort?
Bastards-that area is-I think -almost impossible to clear of them-and I’m an optimist.
Posted by madawaskan on 2005 10 01 at 12:58 PM • permalinkObviously 20-30 deaths+ is hardly out of the question when talking about multiple bombs, if that’s the case. However, beware. Remember 10 000 dead in New Orleans? 100 000-150 000 dead in Iraq? 15 000-20 000 dead on 9/11?
The media is trying to sell content. It could be right. However, if it’s not it wouldn’t be the first time the media has overstated casualty rates to pump up a story.
Posted by James Waterton on 2005 10 01 at 02:42 PM • permalinkMy condolences to the victims and their families.
As for the terrorists—kill ‘em all.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 10 01 at 03:38 PM • permalinkI’m appalled by this blatant racial profiling.
How do we know the bombers weren’t Israelis? Or Swedes?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 10 01 at 04:17 PM • permalinkAnd how long has that guy they jailed for the last ones been out again?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 10 01 at 04:24 PM • permalinkDamn it richard-
Swedes are sneaky sure they got that Nobel Peace Prize crap-but then who do they give it to?Hmmmm?hmmmm?
Jihminny Carter AND Arafat.
Posted by madawaskan on 2005 10 01 at 04:32 PM • permalinkDon’t get me started on those sweet and innocent yodels-the Swiss. Man would I like to snap their lederhosen.
Posted by madawaskan on 2005 10 01 at 04:38 PM • permalinkAny Anglican Bishops been quoted yet, saying the
West is to blame????Posted by Torontosteve on 2005 10 01 at 05:06 PM • permalink#17 James, the difference is that this is not on US soil, and it is not a natural disaster.
The moonbats can point to US military occupation of (pick your place) as an excuse, and the jihadi’s will gleefully take up the ball and run with it. There is no need to inflate numbers when you have ready made excuses to hand.
There is no real blame to be attached to a hurrican (unless it’s GWB, of course), so it needs to be politicised any other way you can think up.
I’m surprised it didn’t happen sooner.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2005 10 01 at 05:26 PM • permalinkOh I can’t wait for the first statement that obliquely blames John Howard for this latest atrocity.
Similar to the doomed Sea King chopper crash story (supposedly some maintenance was deferred due to transporting the PM) and a long list of others by your typical “panty waist” lefty terrorist-sympathetic wankers.
And of course from our dear friend Marilyn Shepherd… I can smell the fresh load of bile already forming in her diseased innards.
Terry Lane in the Sunday Age today:
“Politicians, spies and police all subscribe to the ‘not if, when’ theory of imminent terrorist attack. It justifies their unseemly grab for extra powers, unchecked by any sort of judicial review…
We must assume, just to be fair, that no one, not even the Prime Minister and the Attorney General {not even???}, wants a terror attack. But the imminence and possibility of a bomb plays right in the hands of those who crave the powers of monarchs. If the citizens are frightened they will countenance, and indeed encourage, any affront to their civil liberties…
The second explanation for political hysteria intended to alarm the citizens flows from (blah blah)
Let’s face it, if the premiers’ real intention is to make us safe, one of them would have raised with the PM the radical proposition that disengaging from the army of occupation in Iraq would do the trick. The spooks could go back to spying on Greenpeace and Oxfam.
Terry, your brain and your column have passed their use-by date.Thw war will be long and bloody, and we will lose some good people. But we will win in the end, and the Islamist barbarians will be driven back into the dank caves from which they came.
Condolences to the victims and their families.
Posted by Spectre765 on 2005 10 01 at 06:28 PM • permalinkIslamists pick bali because most of the locals arent Muslims. Sort of 2 for one package for gutless wonders, as they get to blow up not only the people bringing in currency to the country but also the people working to get it.
The scum work on one principle alone, “I will make things so shithouse in this country that you will have to choose a side”.
How about a public statement that the next attack on civilians will be met by Napaming Medina? Might take some of the “fun” out of it for themPosted by thefrollickingmole on 2005 10 01 at 06:49 PM • permalinkThe only reason they keep doing this is that Westerners are so measured and just in their responses.
We should announce that for every westerner murdered by these creeps, we’ll shoot another leftist reporter. If wouldn’t stop the attacks but it would mitigate it somewhat.
Maybe we should quit being so nice about national borders, too. If we started shooting the radical Imams who promise martyrdom to the young and stupid, but don’t themselves particularly want to leave this plane at present, we’d hear a lot less of this incitement to murder.
If you’re not with us, you’re with the terrorists. Tell Indonesia and Malaysia to do it or our special ops will.
A tragedy for the families, but is that really the best the terrorists can manage?
Damn near a strategic ‘air swing’ as far as I can see.
Posted by Harry Buttle on 2005 10 01 at 07:07 PM • permalinkSBS gave free rein last night to some local Muslim dingbat complaining about Howard’s evil anti-terror laws. Under such laws, he observed, anti-war protestors in the Vietnam era could have been jailed! (SBS helpfully splices in file images of protestors, in case we’ve forgotten what they look like.) Er, yeah, your royal imam-ness, and just remind me about how the North Vietnamese were blowing up skyscrapers in Manhattan, tube trains in London and tourist bars in Bali.
A poster at LGF comments - ‘Brought to you by the military wing of the peace movement’.
Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2005 10 01 at 07:44 PM • permalinkAndjam,
Funny you should mention that. I’d only just commented to Nicky that perhaps Australia, with the assistance of the US should annex Bali for the sake of its citizens as well as our own.—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2005 10 01 at 08:02 PM • permalinkFunny you should mention that, captain. I’ve just been making a nuisance of myself over at Antony’s place about that sort of thing.
I agree with Andjam and Nick’n'Nora. About time us Aussies started stretching our colonial imperialist wings.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2005 10 01 at 08:23 PM • permalinkThis piece in the Australian would have to rank as some of the most contrived, worst journalism I have seen. What next? New Idea publishes a newspaper?
#29.The Insiders on ABC this morning.A creep named Mike “something”? started to blame the Americans for not having alerted us to the imminent attack.He was talked over before he could fully develop his sick theme,no doubt,had he got warmed up Howard would have been blamed for being in league with these evil non-alerting Americans.I’m sure the ABC/Fairfax Axis will have Howard tried and convicted before the day is over.
der FRED #29
The blame game?
Didn’t take long, Channel 7’s Weekend Sunrise had an on-camera interview with Brian Deegan early this a.m. Fairly predictable, it’s the Howard government’s fault for being nasty to Saddam and Osama. If we’d got out of Iraq and Afghanistan these latest bombings wouldn’t have happened!
Naturally, the ineffably air-headed Lisa Wilkinson failed to ask the obvious - what do innocent Balinese, Koreans and Germans have to do with Australia’s foreign policy?
Ho hum, the media reptiles never disappoint their viewing public.#50
“started to blame the Americans for not having alerted us to the imminent attack”What’s with these lefty guys? They hate us Americans with all passion. They think we’re decadent nitwits. But they also think we’re so powerful that we have spies in every terrorist cell so that we always know when and where they’re going to murder next? Maybe they think we have super secret satellites that can read terrorist lips? Take it to the bank: if we knew when and where they’re going to strike, it would be a race between us and you to see who gets to kill them first.
#51 If I recall the Deegan story right, papa had split from the wife and kids years ago and had only restarted a relationship with his son shortly before the young man’s trip to Bali
Papa Deegan (who predates Mother Sheehan), transfers his impotent rage and personal regrets against Bush and Howard against those monsters truly responsible.
Psychologically, he can’t do that. If he correctly addresses his anger to those who perpetrate it he also has to wear the accountability of his own actions as an absentee father.
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2005 10 02 at 12:04 AM • permalinkSorry that should read - against Bush and Howard
againstinstead of those monsters truly responsible.—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2005 10 02 at 12:06 AM • permalinkThat’s Mike Seccombe….
cuckoo the muslim guy was saying that during the Vietnam war the Australian people backed the Vietnamese and were against the Americans.
Deegan,who lost his job as a magistrate(shiver) because of his political anti feds activities following the death of his son, is probably angry that OTHERS could achieve his victim status.(they wouldn’t for political gain).Wasn’t Lisa Wilkinson the correspondent foreign ABC in Iraq who copped a sacking for twice asking local kids to climb onto armaments, then bitched on camera in doco about how the Yanks left them behind and how dangerous they were.
She was dobbed in by someone on scene and outed.The harrowing pic I referred to earleir on msn was swapped for another not long after Harry.
Interesting how abc Barry Cassidy Insiders host’s mind works…
Interviewing Mercedes Corby’s Mum.
Her.“and one person died in Mercedes’ arms”-genuinely upset,breaks down…
Cassidy-“and did they feel the need to rescue victims because services were overstretched?”.
Her “No that’s what you DO you just help!”
Obvious to most ordinary people I would think….Oops i before e…
In Business Insiders,the host Kohler was discussing ethanol and the use of in cars.
Embarrassed himself horribly by dramatically declaring"THIS is a plan to run our cars on FOOD,when HALF the world is STARVING.
He then prosed on about Manildra and John Howard and Dick Honan his second best friend.Also what a big donor of money he was to the Liberal party etc. No thought for the environment tho’.Tsk tsk what would our friends from the Greens say?Heathcliff the victims were mostly families,not surfers.Obviously families were targeted.
Patricia the burns unit was donated to treat the Balinese who were still recovering from their injuries.
It was a memorial gift of friendship,each Aussie capital city now has a Bali memorial,it was thought however that a hospital in Bali would be a practical memorial in the true healing spirit.Wasn’t Lisa Wilkinson the correspondent foreign ABC in Iraq who copped a sacking for twice asking local kids to climb onto armaments, then bitched on camera in doco about how the Yanks left them behind and how dangerous they were.
She was dobbed in by someone on scene and outed.I think the person you’re referring to is <a href=“http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s956058.htm”>Gina Wilkinson</a>.
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Yahoo is reporting eight dead the BBC nine with at least four foreigners. The local tv here in Jakarta is still saying only two, but as the phone lines are down and the police have sealed off the area it is hard to get accurate reports.
My prayers and best wishes to all in Bali tonight.