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Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja
Indonesia Correspondent
Bali bombers wait - but for how long?
November 04, 2008 Tuesday, 03:51 PM
Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja keeps an ear out for the new execution date.

From Jakarta

SPECULATIONS about which day the three Bali bombers will actually be executed have been ripe. 

Late last month, when the Indonesian government announced it would take Amrozi, Imam Samudra and Mukhlas out of their prison cells for the firing squads early November, most guesses were putting D-day on Monday on November 3. That's yesterday.

On Monday, the "H" marking that was painted three days earlier on a nearby empty field in Tenggulun village in East Java - where the bodies of two of the three bombers would be transported to by helicopter - was partly washed off by rains. (Tenggulun is Amrozi's and Mukhlas' hometown. Samudra is from Banten, West Java.)

Sources said that the Monday schedule was postponed because of Prince Charles' visit to Indonesia from November 1st to the 5th. 

Authorities are expecting tensions after the execution from hardline Muslims in Indonesia who may retaliate. Already, police have today received bomb threats targeted at the US and Australian embassies in Indonesia. 

A state prosecutor told The Straits Times yesterday that the execution is now slated for this Friday, November 7. This may be the best guess for now: At the Cilacap seaport in Central Java, security has been beefed up for days, and early today, a barbed wire barraicade was set up. 

Central Java and the Jakarta government have raised their security alert status to the highest, and at the Nusakambangan island prison, a quick boat trip away from Cilacap seaport on the Java island, prison officers have transferred the three bombers to isolation rooms, while their regular cells have been cleaned.

It remains to be seen if the executions will happen on Friday.

Read Bomb threat to embassies.



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singaporean6
November 06, 2008 Thursday

Food for thoughts:

Medicine and healthcare politics in this country is just not ridding the root of the weeds, when the spring wind blows, we shall see the weeds blossom again. We need real professional who can and want to invest time to reflect in thinking through his own actions and sound judgement in his/her professional work.

For instance , how to cure the asthmatic with drugs when the real underlying cause is the victim is suffering chronic dehydration at cellular level? The remedy should BE INCREASE THE WATER INTAKE UP TO THE PERSONAL QUOTA ON DAILY BASIS. Details below, and more health remedies foud at http://theinnozablog.blogspot.com
ASTHMA AND ALLERGIESIt is estimated that 12 million children suffer from asthma , and several thousand die every year. Let us declare an end to asthma in less than five years . Let us save children from the constant fear of suffocation because they do not recognize they are thirsty for water ! Asthma and allergies are indicators that the body has resorted to an increase in production of the neuratransmitter histamine, the sensor regulator of water metabolism and its distribution in the human body. It is recognised that asthmatics have an increase in histamine content of their lung tissue and that it is the histamine that regulates the bronchial mucle contraction. Since one of the site for water loss through evaporation is in the lungs, bronchial constriction produced by histamine means less water evaporation during the act of breathing - a simple natural (by the human body) maneuver to preserve the body water. Histamine is an agent that, apart from its water regulatory role, has responsibilities in antibacterial, antiviral, and anti-foreign agents (chemicals and protein) defence systems in the human body. At a normal level of water content of the body, these actions are held at an imperceptive or unexaggerated level. At a dehydrated state of the body, to the point that the histamine activity becomes exaggerated for water regulation, an immune system activation of histamine-producing cells will release an exaggerated amount of the transmitter that is held in storage for its other functions. It has been shown in animal models that histamine production in histamine-generating cells will decrease with an increase in the daily water intake. No other fluid can be substituted for plain water. Both of these conditions should be regulated with an alert and determined increase in water intake. On average, these conditions respond after one to four weeks of waterregulation of the body. Mr. Peck, an asthmatic since childhood , who also became sensitive to all sorts of "allergens," is no longer in fear of these health problems. (His personnal letter is available for your viewing upon request. E-mail your me.)Mr. Paturis also testified to the fact that his wife's allergic condition became less problematic.Jose Rivera,M.D., had for years sufferedfrom allergies and asthma . He was severely allergic to cats. In fact, he would never go to a house where a catwas also kept. It seems he at one time got very sick after being exposed to a cat. As a result of using the new information about the relationship of dehydration to excess histamine production in the body , he has totally recovered from both of these condistions. To top it all, he now treats asthmatics with water and salt (sea salt).


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