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Article: Indonesia, terror's latest front; Jakarta's defense minister Monday linked the bombing in Bali to Al Qaeda.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- October 15, 2002
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Byline: Dan Murphy Special to The Christian Science Monitor
SINGAPORE -- Most of the victims of Saturday's bombing in Bali - the deadliest terrorist attack since Sept. 11 - were Australian.
But the blast that wounded 300 and took the lives of at least 189 people - including tourists from the US, Germany, Britain, France, Ecuador, the Netherlands, and Sweden - is reverberating worldwide, revitalizing official support for the war against terrorists.
Now a critical question hangs over the world's largest Muslim nation: Will Indonesia's President Megawati Sukarnoputri take swift, decisive action against radical groups in her country?
In a ...