In Reply to: This Shows That Bali Is An Easy Target posted by MisterSteve on Sunday, 2. October 2005 at 01:56 Bali Time:
We've been back from Bali for a week, and, yes, there are easy targets in Bali. Obviously I won't name them but there are a number of night spots with top security at the entrance and an open back door. Half my mind was conscious of that very fact as, only ten days ago, we lay on loungers watching the sun disappear and sipping a couple of the most expensive cocktails in Bali.
But what I'm not comprehending this time is why Jimbaran?? There are only a few international hotels along this glorious beach, and, as far as I can see from BBC News 24, the only places hit here are the fishermen's cafes. Not your usual targets at all. And, between the beach restaurants, there are more local people, surfing, playing football than tourists. It hasn't got the scare value of an attack on a Hariott or a Myatt; it's not going to reap the casualties of the dreadful bombs at Paddy's/The Sari Club, it can't be said to be aimed at the decadent westerners who are revelling in their immoral pastimes of drinking or - horror of horrors - dancing.
Is it just to show us that we can't avoid the terrorists by avoiding the obvious targets? That the temples and the galleries are no safer than the (in my view) blot-on-the-landscape malls?
Whatever their reason, don't they realise that their actions will win them no friends, no converts, no sympathy and - most importantly, NO BLOODY PLACE IN HEAVEN?