Damn! I thought you said BORNEO!

From the Sydney Morning Herald:

Doh!

Indonesian police received intelligence of stepped up terror activity three months ago but misread it and mistakenly concluded that an attack was being planned for a city on the island of Borneo, not Bali.

Someone, somewhere, somehow got the idea that JI's next terror target would be Balikpapan.

A city rich in coal and expatriates, Balikpapan serves as a base of operations for an Indonesian sub of the Australian miner, Thiess.

It is also headquarters for the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation.

Borneo authorities were so certain that they were on to something they spent the weeks prior to the Bali bombing trailing four 4WD's across Java. They lost them somewhere in the town of Bangil, near the port of Surabaya, home to a JI friendly ferry service. That ferry goes to Bali.

Since the bombing, gory pictures of the bombers heads have widely been circulated on the internet in hopes of id'ing them.

They come from a new group," Pastika said of the three October 1 bombers. "A new generation means that (they) are not known by the old group."

Meanwhile back in the Philippines:

Pastika declined to comment on media reports that the dead trio might have been trained by Muslim groups in the Philippines. The Philippines has denied any such training took place in its territory, saying that its military had long forced Muslim separatists to abandon the training camps.

Here's what's really annoying about this whole deal:

Police are scouring the border between Central and East Java for three men they suspect of also being involved in the blasts. Two of those men - identified only as AR and YD - were convicted of involvement in the 2002 attack. They served short prison terms and were released.

And you wonder why that guy spying in the White House is potentially a big deal.

Don't it just make you want to holler?