BALI BOMBER ARRESTED

His arrest may be a sign that Osama bin Laden is dead, or that the US move to freeze his financial assets is working:

One of the most wanted Bali bombing suspects has been arrested after attempting a bank robbery to fund a new terrorist attack, Indonesian police said yesterday.

Idris, also known as Joni Hendrawan, was picked up in Medan in Sumatra nearly three weeks ago after he and 10 other suspected members of Jemaah Islamiah killed three bank employees during a bungled hold-up, the head of the Bali investigation team, General I Made Pastika, told the Herald .

"The reason for the robbery was to get money for the next operation," General Pastika said. Police had yet to find out what new terrorist operation the 11 members of the robbery gang had been planning.

The robbers apparently netted more than $20k in the robbery, to buy explosives and vehicles (another truck bomb then, from the sound of it). Multimillionaire OBL can't afford to cough up a measely 20 g's for his gang's next great attack on the West? One of our JDAMs costs more than that, and we dropped hundreds of them in Iraq.

OBL is clearly feeling the pinch, if he can feel anything at all.