The Jakarta Post, 7/17/2007 4:33:08 PM
Australian PM to open Bali clinic dedicated to bombing victims
JAKARTA (AP): Australian Prime Minister John Howard will open an eye clinic
dedicated to victims of the 2002 Bali bombings during a visit to Indonesia next week,
a senior official said Tuesday.
Howard will open the new clinic at a hospital on the resort island before meeting with
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda
said.
Australia lost 88 citizens in the Oct. 12, 2002, Bali nightclub blasts that killed 202
people.
Regional terror network Jemaah Islamiyah, which officials say wants to create an
Islamic state across much of Southeast Asia, has been blamed for the blasts, as well
as attacks in 2003 and 2004 on the J.W. Marriott Hotel and Australian Embassy in
Jakarta, and triple suicide bombings in 2005 on restaurants in Bali.
Together they killed more than 240 people, many of them Western tourists. (**)
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