blessing in disguise

i didnt know about the bali bombing until 30 mins ago, when my uncle told me about the shocking news. i just visited bali barely a mth ago, and thinking back, one of my friends had wanted to postpone the trip. cant bring myself to imagine if we did postponed and we might have been one of the victims. *shudders*

im appalled, shocked and disgusted with these acts of the terrorists group. they can die for all we care, but why do they have to harm innocent lives like these? bali took 3 years to recover slowly, and even before their recovery is stable, these stupid fucks have to plant the bombs and claim innocent lives. do they find no meaning in life at all? is life worthless to them? do they really think they are helping to rid the world of all evils? just cannot imagine where this world is coming to. its painful to know that the balinese will yet again have to live in fear, the economy (of which tourism forms the bulk) will sink into recession, and the locals will need to rebuild their lives from scratch.

Article abstract from Yahoo:
BALI, Indonesia - Suicide bombers wearing explosive vests targeted tourist resorts on Bali with coordinated attacks that devastated three crowded restaurants on Saturday night, killing at least 25 people. Two al-Qaida-linked fugitives suspected of masterminding the 2002 nightclub bombings on the same Indonesian island may have been involved, a top anti-terrorism official said.

Saturday's near-simultaneous blasts struck two seafood cafes in the Jimbaran beach resort and a three-story noodle and steakhouse in downtown Kuta. Kuta is the bustling tourist center of Bali where two nightclubs were bombed three years ago, also on a busy Saturday night, killing 202 people.

Dozens of people, most of them Indonesian, waited in tears outside the morgue in Sanglah Hospital, near the island's capital Denpasar, for news of friends and relatives missing since the attacks.

Two Australians and a Japanese citizen were killed, along with 12 Indonesians. Hospital officials were trying to identify the 10 other corpses.

The 101 wounded included 49 Indonesians, 17 Australians, six Koreans, four Japanese and two Americans, officials said.

The bombers struck at about 8 p.m. as thousands of diners flocked to restaurants in tourist areas on the bustling, mostly Hindu island, which was just starting to recover from the 2002 blasts.

Baradita Katoppo, an Indonesian tourist from Jakarta, said one of the bombs on Jimbaran beach went off in the Nyoman Cafe, where he was eating with friends. Five minutes later, another explosion rocked a neighboring restaurant filled with diners.

"There was blood on their faces and their bodies," he said. "It was very chaotic and confusing. We didn't know what to do."

Another witness, I Wayan Kresna, told the private El Shinta radio station that he counted at least two dead near that attack, and many more were taken to the hospital.
"I helped lift up the bodies," he said. "There was blood everywhere."

At almost the same time about 18 miles away in Kuta, a bomb exploded at the three-story Raja restaurant in a bustling outdoor shopping center. The area includes a KFC fast-food restaurant, clothing stores and a tourist information center.

Smoke poured from the badly damaged building.

The bomb apparently went off on the restaurant's second floor, and an Associated Press reporter saw at least three bodies and five wounded people there.