Quote Originally Posted by Papewaio
This goes a bit beyond incompetence. This is agreement:

Bali bomber spotted having coffee in mall
He was a key withness against other bombers and a trust was built up. Surely this is bad taste, but this is something common in several western nations, where you do deals with criminals to get other criminals. By the way, the police chief that did this, got in to trouble over it so it didn't just pass.

Quote Originally Posted by Papewaio
East Timor militia leader faces Indon court over abuses
This is a tricky one. Crimes where committed in East Timor, which no longer is Indonesian territory, meaning Indonesian authorities no longer have jurisdiction there. Furthermore, all militias and rebels where granted some kind of amnesty, which would include this guy.
This guy is a small time gangster, that have got far to much media on his side in Indonesia.
You have to remember that the Fretilini guerilla was seen as a terrorist organisation and wasn't very nice to the civilians that didn't support them. Several of the guerilla members are today government officials in Timor Leste and are not being arrested or intimidated when entering Indonesia. It works two ways.
This has of course created a rather rough situation for anyone that wants to prosecute them.

Another small note. In Sweden we have 3 murderers participating as actors in a play. When the first play was given on a large Swedish theater, they run away robbed some banks and killed some cops. That even beat the cup of coffee above in my book......