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To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (19289)	10/16/2002 11:16:11 AM
From: Richnorth	Respond to of 27666

'8 bombers staged Bali blasts' KUTA (Indonesia) -- Eight bombers in two vans staged the deadly Bali terrorism attacks, a newspaper reported on Wednesday, as President Megawati was expected to discuss the investigation with members of her Cabinet. Citing police and intelligence sources, local daily Koran Tempo said the bombers may have used remote control devices to blow up the two bars filled mostly with foreigners in Bali's busy Kuta tourist district. Tempo cited information obtained from an unnamed official of the National Intelligence Agency that eight people -- seven Indonesians under the leadership of someone from the Middle East -- carried out the bombing. 'They are all already out of Bali,' the official said. Police have said that the explosion, which killed more than 187 people and has been blamed on the Al-Qaeda, was caused by a car bomb and that the powerful C4 plastic explosives were used. Two Indonesians have been detained in connection with the attack, which is being investigated by the local police backed by officers from Australia, Britain, Germany, Japan and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. One of those detained was said to have been in the Kuta area when the blast occurred. Bali Police Chief Brigadier General Budi Setiawan, asked about the newspaper report Wednesday, said 'that is from the report of our (police) intelligence' but declined further comment. Tempo said that the two multi-purpose vans used in the attack had first stopped near the popular Sari Club, causing a traffic jam in the narrow main street of Kuta while clearing a space in front of them. One van was left behind and the occupants switched to the other vehicle which sped off before the bomb blew up shortly thereafter, it said. 'There are two possibilities, that the bomb was activated by a timer or the perpetrators just pushed a remote control button so that they can control the blast from a safe distance and give them enough time to flee,' a police source was quoted as saying. The blast ripped through the packed Sari Club and a bar across the road and caused a fire that blazed for hours and gutted the area. -- AFP

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (19289)	10/16/2002 2:26:25 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

Darren. Lets just suppose that it is islam terrorists. Why would they use a big white van if they did not want to be noticed, of all the cars on the road why a big white noticable van? And because we are just supposing lets just suppose these guys are suicide types and know they will at some point be caught up with and surrounded. Makes a person wonder what they may have packed into that or those vans....thinking of Bali and vans used there. Damm islam crazies.