A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days

I suppose that this was entirely expected:

Suicide bombers carried out the attacks on three Bali restaurants that killed at least 19 people, a senior Indonesian anti-terror official has said.

Maj Gen Ansyaad Mbai said the remains of three bombers were found at the scenes in the tourist areas of Jimbaran and Kuta.

He said the attacks appeared to have been carried out by regional militant group Jemaah Islamiah (JI).

JI was blamed for the 2002 Bali bombings, which left 202 people dead.

Incidentally--and it is horrible that we should even have to talk about this, but alas, we do--remember that there are a whole host of people who think that the terrorist threat is either a canard altogether, or is vastly overblown, or provides good rhetorical fodder like "Halliburton are the real terrorists," or somesuch nonsense. Evidently, we are obliged to remind such people that there are far more ghoulish entities out there.