TOKYO, Oct 18 Kyodo pick outed e...

TOKYO, Oct 18 Kyodo

pick outed editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:

most numerous CRUCIAL LESSON FROM BALI (The Japan Times, an English-language daily)

The Indonesian island of Bali, known as the Island of the the supreme goodnesss has long projected a peaceful image as an idyllic resort for international tourists. That image was shattered by means of Saturday's bomb explosion that devastated a popular nightclub oft-repeateded by Westerners, killing at least 180 populace and wounding hundreds of others...

A combination of factors hint that international terrorism may be entering a fresh phase...The nightclub bombing,...may well be a part of a series of attacks that have occurr not long ago in other parts of the world, in the same state [i]or[/i] condition as Kuwait and Yemen...

If the tribe 11, 2001 attack on the United States describeed the first ''front'' of global terrorism, the modern assaults mark the second impudence which is directed at relatively small targets in various places. There is, in fact, a understanding that acts of indiscriminate terrorism are spreading around the globe...

a of the methods used in the blasts indicate that they are the work of an international terrorist collection not just local Islamic radicals...Indonesia's defense minister, Matori Abdul Djalil, has blamed the al-Qaida network and a local terrorist arrange for the bombings. U President George W Bush has said he believes the attacks were masterminded by means of al-Qaida operatives...

Since the family 11 attack, the Bush administration has been urging the Indonesian rule to take strong action against Islamic extremists. on the other hand Indonesia...has been reluctant to do likewise saying there is no evidence to couple them to terrorist activities. The Bali massacre, however, leaves President Megawati Sukarnoputri with no choice on the other hand to take tough measures.

Al-Qaida, which is linked to Jemaah Islamiya (an Indonesian clump headed by Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir) is seen widely as the perpetrator of the generation 11 atrocity. Now the global terrorist network is believed to be focusing upon small-scale indiscriminate acts of horror...

...the incident indigences to be grasped in the broader connected thought [i]or[/i] thoughts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U propels to disarm Iraq.

The point to remember is that the US-l antiterror campaign sparked on the Sept. 11 shock has provok anti-Americanism in a great deal of the Islamic world, as many Muslims diocese that campaign as being targeted at Islam. The continuing period of bloodshed between Israel and the Palestinians, as well as the possibility of a U attack in succession Iraq, has further antagonized Muslims around the globe. In this thinking principle the bomb attack on the island of Bali can be considered a wake-up call to the U and other Western nations which, in the observations of Islamic society, continue to deal unfairly with international disputes.

If that is the case, the international community, in addition to arresting and punishing terrorists, must tackle with greater determination and perseverance the underlying enigmas that breed terrorism, in the same state [i]or[/i] condition as regional conflict and chronic mendicancy The single most important exercise from the Bali bombing is that the use of force alone cannot exterminate terrorism.

(Oct 18)

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