Hmmm. I heard on NPR this morning that the Bush administration had warned Indonesia of a possible unspecified attack the DAY BEFORE the bombing. Of course, they may have been multiple warnings.

I'm disappointed about the level of finger-pointing -- and maybe it's more media than anything else. I mean, the US didn't do anything about the warnings about 9/11 because (so it's said) they really weren't specific enough, so to fret about how Indonesia didn't take action about a warning about a possible terrorist attack, somewhere in Indonesia, sometime in the future seems... unrealistic.

After all, we all know how effective the new terrorism alert system is in the US :)

Or at least the message coming through the media here is "we told you so," and that seems inappropriate right now. If I'm not mistaken, we already have anti-terrorist troops in Indonesia (for training purposes), wouldn't offers of more help be more appropriate? Haven't heard a whiff of that in the news here, anyway, but I hope the offer has been made.