YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia -- Early Sunday morning, the Indonesian government executed three men convicted of the 2002 Bali Bombings, ending a controversial period of postponements, court appeals and international media attention. Now, counter-terrorism officials and the public are braced for possible retaliatory attacks that the men -- who operated under Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), the al-Qaida-linked terrorist group held responsible for most of the bombings that hit the country from 2000 to 2005 -- had promised.
The 2002 Bali bombings killed over 200 people and remain the deadliest terrorist attack after 9/11. ...
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