The Fool quoted:
It seems ironic that the Australian media are saying the Indonesian terrorists are striking at Australia because of our strong support of the US position, but the Indonesian media are saying all these Australians died to gain the support of countries reluctant to join the GWOT.Sidney Jones, the Jakarta-based director of the International Crisis Group's Indonesia project, has written for "The New York Times" about the reaction of ordinary Indonesians to the Bali blast. In an interview with RFE/RL, she describes the anti-American sentiments many Indonesians share: "The theory that is widely current in Indonesia today is that the United States was behind the Bali bombing, that its motive in mounting the attack was to gain the sympathy of countries that had, hitherto, been reluctant to join in the war on terrorism and therefore support the American plan to bomb Iraq. [According to this theory, Washington] would use the blast in Bali as a way to infiltrate intelligence officers into Indonesia under the guise of helping with the investigation, and those individuals would be the beachhead for a larger presence of U.S. troops."
We have seen lots of footage of muslim clerics proclaiming that the US was behind this attack on Australian citizens - interestingly, these claims are being made in English rather than local dialects.
Cheers
Russell C.
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