Bali, again

摘要

The simultaneous explosions in three different restaurants on the evening of October 1st killed 19 people, as well as three suspected suicide bombers, and injured more than 100. But the Balinese, inured by the much deadlier attack of October 2002, which killed 202, seem determined not to be cowed this time around. Shopkeepers, restaurateurs and hoteliers insist that life will go on. Tourists, too, appear surprisingly stoical: on the morning after the blasts, more visitors were strolling along the waterfront than thronging the airport. Despite the continued bloodshed, the attacks suggest that Indonesia's three-year-old crackdown on Islamic terrorists is working, in that the terrorists have been reduced to softer targets, smaller bombs and cruder methods.