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The terrorist attacks in Bali of 2005 killed 22 people, including the attackers, and injured more of 50.
This was the second suicide bombing incident that shocked the island in less than three years. In 2002, a series of three bombs killed 202 people, many of which foreign nationals in Bali on vacation, including 88 Australians.
Explosions occurred almost simultaneously, hitting two outdoor restaurants in the Jimbaran beach resort and a third in Kuta, a resort about 30 kilometers of distance.
The Metro television network showed corpses covered by blankets in a hospital, many wounded, some Westerners , broken glass and blood stains on the streets.
It was thought that the attacks, like those of 2002, were the work of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), an extremist Islamist militant group with links to Al Qaeda.
JI is also believed to be responsible for the hotel bombing Marriott in Jakarta at 2003, which resulted in the death of 12 people and the Australian embassy in Indonesia at 2004, in which they died people.
Although Indonesia is The most populous Muslim nation in the world, the island of Bali is primarily Hindu.
Despite the fact that there have not been attacks as massive as the one in Bali, the attacks have increased and some of them have targeted western interests in Indonesia.
The fight against terrorism in Indonesia reached a turning point in 2010, when the Police raided a occult training in the mountains of Aceh, a radical bastion north of the island of Sumatra where “Sharia” (Islamic law) prevails.
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