Alfred Russel Wallace - Fool Me Twice 2007 - Mick Keelty - ABC National Radio Australia - The New York Times - John Howard - The Jakarta Post & Robert S Finnegan -
I was both astonished and delighted; for as my visit to Java was some years later, I had never beheld so beautiful and well-cultivated a district out of Europe. A slightly undulating plain extends from the seacoast about ten or twelve miles inland, where it is bounded by a fine range of wooded and cultivated hills. Houses and villages, marked out by dense clumps of coconut palms, tamarind and other fruit trees, are dotted about in every direction; while between them extend luxurious rice-grounds, watered by an elaborate system of irrigation that would be the pride of the best cultivated parts of Europe. Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago
Investigators officially concluded that there were only two explosive devices used in the bombings. According to the official story a suicide bomber detonated a backpack of TNT inside Paddy’s Bar. Witnesses contradicted the Australian’s federal police’s obscure suicide-bomber theory. Bar staff said that they had seen a man walk into the club and throw a plastic bag full of explosives. The witness, who was treated in the Burns Unit at the local hospital said, ‘I will never forget his face as long as I live.’ Investigators chose to ignore this testimony. Fool Me Twice, 2007
Abu Bakar Bashir was sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment for conspiracy in the bombings. There was no evidence directly linking him to the Bali bombings. He was found guilty by association. The US government provided no evidence of Bashir’s plot to assassinate President Megawati. ibid.
There was about a ton of chlorate purchased by Amrozi [bin Nurhasyim]. There were receipts for that ... We believe that there is about at least 6-700 kilos of chlorate missing. We retrieved some chlorate from two of the vehicles that were seized from Amrozi. Mick Keelty, ABC PM 22nd November 2002
We have been able to now absolutely confirm that it was potassium chlorate. Mick Keelty, ABC TV 31st January 2003
Indonesian authorities have reacted angrily to revelations today that a leading south-east Asian based Al Qaeda figure has escaped from US custody. And they’ve criticised the Bush administration for failing to immediately notify Indonesia of the escape, saying the operative’s freedom increases the threat of terrorism to the region. ABC National Radio Australia World Today report 15th August 2003
Terror in Bali: Warning To Jakarta: US Says It Told Indonesia Of Plot By Terror Group ... The American ambassador Ralph C Boyce delivered the latest warning to President Megawati Sukarnoputri and her top advisers just a day before the bombing and gave her a deadline of October 24 to act, the officials said. The New York Times archives, headline 30th October 2007
I don’t want to sound alarmist but we are living in a different world, and something like what happened in Bali last Saturday night could happen in Australia. John Howard
Bali bombing: an investigator’s analysis ... Are these the statements and actions of professional investigators - or the actions of individuals engaged in a cover-up? ... Day after day investigators trotted out a different explosive and combinations of explosives purportedly responsible for the blast. In addition to C-4 and RDX there was now TNT, Ammonium Nitrate, HMX, Semtex, PETN, chlorate and napalm. Everything but the kitchen sink. Was this gross ineptitude? Or another ploy to throw independent investigators off the trail? The Jakarta Post online headline 3rd January 2003 Robert S Finnegan