Rude Awakening

The Bali bombing was Southeast Asias September 11. The incident showed that terrorism has reached most parts of the region.

October 7, 2003

On October 12 last year, using about 100 kilograms of potassium chlorate, a second-hand van and funds from robberies, village mechanic Amrozi, his two brothers and their friends blew up two nightspots in Bali, snuffed out 202 innocent lives, shocked the world and put an abrupt stop to the thriving tourist trade of the resort island. Less than a year later, on August 5 this year, an apparent suicide bomb at the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta left 13

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