Sunday, October 02, 2005

The face of evil

From the Associated Press a deadly reminder that the war isn't only in Iraq, and America is not the only target:
Video shot by a vacationer at the three-story Raja Cafe captured a suspected bomber in a black T-shirt walking past foreign and local tourists eating dinner, sipping drinks and chatting at candlelit tables.

The man clutches his backpack, adjusts it slightly, then walks out of view. Moments later there is an explosion from his direction, followed by gray smoke and terrified screams.
What would it take to hate your fellow human beings so much to walk amongst them and then detonate an explosive device, killing and injuring people for no other reason than they don't have the exact same beliefs as the bomber.

"A witness said that my father was sitting, facing the beach when a man opened his jacket and pulled the trigger in front of him," said Nugroho, a Jakarta-based reporter in his late 20s who works for the Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizan Shimbun.