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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (52654)	10/17/2002 12:28:53 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Australian Prime Minister John Howard admitted that he had received a warning (of Bali attack )from intelligence services www.christiansciencemonitor.com The day after he said his government had no advanced warnings the attack in Bali, Australian Prime Minister John Howard admitted that he had received such a warning from intelligence services, but had decided not to pass it on to the public. The revelation brought more demands from the Australian public for an inquiry into why the country's intelligence services failed to prevent the bombing. Warren Reed, the former head of the Indonesia desk for the Australian Secret Intelligence Service told The Age of Melbourne that Australian intelligence services had been asleep at the wheel in failing to recognize the potential of terrorist warnings in Bali. Australians, meanwhile, have been told to leave Indonesia immediately because of new threats. And US officials told NBC News that there is growing evidence that the Indonesian militant group Jemaah Islamiyah was responsible for the weekend bombing. But the Strait Times argues that while Al Qaeda may be behind the blasts, there is also the chance they are the work of local terrorists who want to discredit the government's move toward democracy, and "make people long for the return of a Suharto-like regime."