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OUCHE ALRAK STOP BUSH Blair exploits Bali bombing

Socialist Resistance no1  |  page 7

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on terror'. Afghanistan? Blair: keen to cash in ing, but chose to take no action. rorist attacks against Western targets. groups in has Fundamentalism has a base in the Indonesian army.

the CIA to Mojahedin forces in Afghanistan. been seized on by Bush and Blair to justify their so-called 'war

In reality, it shows that their aggressive militarism not only cannot eradicate terrorism, but that it will actually stoke it up.

The outrage was quickly pinned on a small fundamentalist group, supposedly linked to Al-Queda. But wasn't Al-Queda supposed to have been irreversibly defeated in The US and British governments all received intelligence warnings of a terrorist threat to Bali in the days before the bombInstead, they continue with their plans for war on Iraq, which will destroy more innocent lives, both in Iraq and in more terAnd as with the Taliban in Afghanistan, the fundamentalist

Indonesia were nourished by the US.

But for years under the US backed Suharto dictatorship, they were the 'good guys', wiping out tens of thousands of left-wing

It has also been revealed that the explosive used in the bombing was the C-4 plastic explosive, which was supplied by

Gagging the press: Straw tificates insisting that the media and public should be required to leave the court if the activities of the security and intelligence services are raised by the defence.