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JAKARTA, Indonesia — The bombings that laid waste to a nightclub and killed 188 people on the island of Bali follows months of warnings and pleadings for Indonesia to act to prevent terror attack.
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Indonesia's neighbors and terrorism experts have frequently voiced exasperation that in a region where Al Qaeda is known to be active -- and Indonesians are suspected of being ringleaders of affiliated networks -- the government in Jakarta has been slow to react.
An Indonesian politician added his voice to the chorus Sunday, claiming that rumors had swirled through Parliament for days that there could be a terror attack if the United States went to war against Iraq.
"I believe the Indonesian intelligence was warned about this," said Alvin Lie, a member of the moderate National Mandate Party. "I have no information about what they have done. I feel the Indonesian government has been too slow in acting to prevent such incidents."
Security officials in Malaysia have privately called neighboring Indonesia "a black hole" in counterterrorism where authorities failed to arrest suspects and were unable to find explosives that Al Qaeda operatives are believed to have stockpiled.
Now the Aussies are pissed-off as well.
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