Indonesian and Australian security forces now believe that Jemaah Islamiyah bombed the resort hotels in Bali as a backup plan to their original target: the memorials for the 2002 attacks. JI planner Azahari Husin originally planned to use a suicide bomber to kill the high-level dignitaries attending the event, as well as the families of the original victims, in a sick twist to an already demented story:

Southeast Asian extremist network Jemaah Islamiyah planned to bomb a memorial service in Indonesia for those killed in the 2002 Bali attacks but was deterred by high security, a report said Friday.

The Islamic militants instead chose to attack tourist spots on the Indonesian resort island two weeks ahead of the anniversary, carrying out three suicide bombings on restaurants popular with westerners on October 1 and killing 23 people, the Australian newspaper said.

Citing intelligence sources in Indonesia, the paper said that master bomb-maker Azahari Husin had planned on placing a suicide bomber at the October 12 Bali memorial in Kuta.

But the attack was cancelled because of the high level of security at the event attended by Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, Justice Minister Chris Ellison, Bali police chief Chief I Made Mangku Pastika and relatives and friends of those killed in the blasts.

After killing Husin earlier, the Indonesians found a trove of records and documents, as well as 30 bombs ready to deploy. They now have the strategy 'white paper' for JI, showing the different targets scoped out by the terrorists, and more than likely a good idea of their recruiting efforts and successes. The security efforts put into place in Bali since 2002 have paid off to some extent.

However, the lesson still shows that defensive security will never be enough to defeat these Islamist terrorists. When we protect high-profile targets, the lunatics simply go to a laundry list of other targets to hit and women and children to kill. The only way to defeat these fanatics is to find them and kill them before they have any opportunity to commit their cowardly attacks on unarmed tourists. That is why Islamofascist terror cannot be fought as a law-enforcement effort, but as a war against a determined enemy of civilization.

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