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SYDNEY (AFX-ASIA) - Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer renewed a warning that Westerners in Jakarta faced a possible terrorist attack this Sunday timed to coincide with Indonesia's national day. "I am very concerned specifically about Jakarta," Downer said on national radio. "We just had information ... there could be terrorist attacks on international hotels or shopping centers used by Westerners, those kinds of targets," he said. "I last week made it clear that we were concerned there could be attacks during the period 10th to the 17th of August, we've gone past the 10th, the 17th is Indonesia's national day...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- The perpetrators of this week's deadly car bombing at Jakarta's Marriott Hotel trained with al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Indonesia's defense minister said, adding that there are many more terrorists still in the country. Matori Abdul Djalil said that the bombers were linked to a group of people arrested last month in the eastern town of Semarang and alleged to be members of the al-Qaida-linked Southeast Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah. Matori said the terror group was behind both the Marriott blast, which killed 10 people and injured 150, and the Oct. 12 Bali nightclub...

THE car bomb attack on the Marriott hotel in Jakarta was recorded by a security camera, and police believe they are close to identifying the suicide bomber. Tuesday's attack, two days before yesterday's Bali verdict and after a spate of global terror warnings, killed 10 people and wounded 147, police confirmed. Initial suspicions have focused on the shadowy Jemaah Islamiyah militant Muslim group. Police will seek DNA samples from the family of the suspected bomber to match body parts found at the scene, senior police officer Gorris Mere said. He identified a suspect as Asmal and said police had intercepted...

INDONESIAN police confirmed late yesterday the Jakarta Marriott Hotel bomb was made from the same chemicals as terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah used to make the October 12 Bali bomb and an earlier bomb which exploded outside the Jakarta residence of the Philippines Ambassador. Jakarta chief detective Erwin Mapasseng confirmed police had found the engine and chassis numbers of the red Toyota car bomb and had located its owner. However, the owner sold the car about two weeks ago to a man he described as about 160cm tall with a strong muscular body who spoke a dialect not common in Jakarta....

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Police on Wednesday said they seized documents last month showing terrorists had planned to target the area around Jakarta's Marriott Hotel, where a powerful car bomb a day earlier killed as many as 14 people and injured nearly 150. Security forces had increased patrols in the Marriott area in response to the seizure but the precautions weren't enough to prevent the suspected suicide attack, which underscored the continuing threat of terrorism in the world's largest Muslim nation. "There was a warning that there were some targets and we have been anticipating an attack," said Jakarta police...

<p>JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- Indonesian police are investigating the owner of a car used in the deadly bombing of a hotel in Jakarta that killed at least 14 people and injured more than 100.</p> <p>Searching through rubble of the JW Marriott, forensic experts have found clues that could link Tuesday's blast to attacks last year in Bali, CNN has learned.</p>

The United States have condemned the car bombing of a US-run hotel in Jakarta Tuesday, calling it a "terrorist attack". "We strongly condemn this terrorist attack," spokesman Scott McClellan said in the Texas town where President George W Bush is on vacation, adding it was a "deplorable terrorist attack on innocent civilians". The bomb ripped through the US-run JW Marriott hotel in Jakarta Tuesday, killing at least 13 people and leaving over 100 injured in an attack police compared to the Bali bombing. Mr McClellan refused to comment on any possible involvement of the Al Qaeda network but said the...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A suspected suicide bombing at the Marriott Hotel created carnage in Jakarta's business district Tuesday, killing 13 people and wounding 149, setting cars afire and scattering glass shards for blocks in a bloody reminder of the continuing threat of terrorism in the world's most populous Muslim nation. The blast came two days before a verdict in the trial of a key suspect in the Bali nightclub bombings last Oct. 12 that killed 202 people, many of them foreigners. A Dutch banker was among the dead Tuesday, and at least 10 foreigners, including two Americans, were reported...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- An explosion outside a Marriot Hotel in downtown Jakarta killed four people on Tuesday, radio reports said. It was not immediately clear whether the blast was caused by a bomb. However, since last year's terrorist bombings in Bali, which killed 202 people, authorities have warned that more attacks were likely. "I saw four badly burned bodies on the street," a reporter from Jakarta's El Shinta radio station said, adding that two cars nearby were on fire. Brig. Gen. Edward Aritonang, a police spokesman, said he had heard the report and that officers were on their...

Summary executions become routine in Aceh as Jakarta's generals break their promises By Kathy Marks in Seunade, Aceh 26 May 2003 The handsome young army captain with the elegant moustache lit another cigarette and placed it between his perfect white teeth. "You must understand," he said, languidly blowing a smoke ring into the air. "We want to protect human rights. We don't want to kill the wrong people." Two miles down the road, the village of Seunade has just experienced the Indonesian military's interpretation of protecting human rights. On Friday, three men were gunned down on a bridge as they...

Explosion blasts Jakarta airport A bomb has ripped through a busy passenger terminal at Jakarta's main airport, wounding at least 11 people, in an attack that police said was "meant to terrorise." One person was seriously injured in the blast that witnesses said occurred between a fast food restaurant and a ticket counter for Indonesia's national carrier, Garuda. The blast sent shards of broken window glass flying and tossed rows of chairs across the terminal. Indonesian Chief of Police Da'i Bachtiar confirmed that a bomb caused the explosion and that no-one had claimed responsibility for the attack, the second of...

Bomb explodes near U.N. office in Jakarta JAKARTA — A bomb exploded near the U.N. building in central Jakarta early Thursday, less than 24 hours after police announced the arrest of 18 members of Jemaah Islamiyah, an alleged southeast Asian wing of the al-Qaida terrorist network, police and officials said. Greater Jakarta Metropolitan Chief Makbul Padmanegara told reporters the explosion occurred around 5:30 a.m. on a small bridge about 6 meters from the U.N. building. (Kyodo News)

AFTER almost six months in detention, extremist Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has finally been formally charged with "conspiring to overthrow the Government" in an indictment that describes him as a leader of the terrorist network Jemaah Islamiah. In an indictment filed yesterday in Jakarta's Central District Court, Bashir is accused of involvement in bomb attacks and attempted bombings in the region. The indictment alleges Bashir conspired with Abdullah Sungkar, Hambali, Zulkarnaen, Imam Samudra and Mukhlas to commit treason – in particular, the bombing of Indonesian churches on Christmas Eve 2000, which killed 19 people. Hambali is Asia's most wanted...

JAKARTA, Indonesia, Mar 04, 2003 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- A helicopter crashed into the swimming pool of a five-star hotel in the Indonesian capital on Tuesday, hotel staff said. It was not immediately clear whether there were any casualties. The accident occurred at the Hotel Sahid Jaya in downtown Jakarta at around midday (0500 GMT), said Ida, a receptionist at the hotel who uses a single name. It was unclear whether the chopper was trying to land at the hotel, which is equipped with a helipad. No other information was immediately available. Copyright 2003 Associated Press, All rights...

25 Nov 2002 02:30 Key Bali bombing suspect moved to Jakarta JAKARTA, Nov 25 (Reuters) - The man Indonesian police identify as the mastermind of last month's Bali bombings has been moved to Jakarta for further questioning, deputy National Police spokesman Edward Aritonang said on Monday. Asked whether Imam Samudra had now been moved to the capital, Aritonang told Reuters: "Yes, the questioning starts today (in Jakarta)." Samudra was arrested in Banten province in western Java on Thursday and held there for questioning. Over the weekend, police conducted a number of house searches in the area as well as in...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 10/31/02 - Sulaymanyah, Barda Qaraman, Baghdad, Solo BREAKING: PROTALIBAN TERRORIST RELEASED BREAKING: ISLAMIC TERRORIST TAKEN BREAKING: BALI PERP SKETCHES RELEASED THE GOOD, THE BAD, and THE UGLY Sulaymanyah, Barda Qaraman, Baghdad, Islamabad, Pakistan, Azam Tariq of the pro-Taliban Sunni Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan party released Solo, Java, Abu Bakar Bashir taken to Jakarta ========= Sulaymanyah, free Iraq ========= THE GOOD In Sulaymanyah, free Iraq, controlled by the PUK, women fight for their freedom. ========= Barda Qaraman ========= In Barda Qaraman, ~22 miles south of Sulaymanyah, free Iraq, controlled by the PUK are refugees who...

Islam preaches love, but the young warrior of God has hate-filled eyes. Dressed in the clothes of a soldier, he stands at attention, barring the way to the hospital bed of his leader, Abu Bakar Bashir, the man many believe is behind the Bali bombing. There are dozens of genuine Indonesian Army soldiers here in the Central Javanese city of Solo, wearing uniforms and carrying automatic rifles. But they are not in charge. Instead, control is in the hands, and at the whim, of this young warrior and his cohorts, delivered in shifts from al-Mukmin, the Islamic fundamentalist boarding school...

KUALA LUMPUR, October 18 (IslamOnline) - Abu Bakar Basyir, the Muslim cleric high on the list of suspects of the USA Singapore and Malaysia for terrorism activities, is ready to surrender to Indonesian police after being named as a suspect in a series of deadly church bombings across Indonesia in 2000, news reports said on Friday, October 18. Considered the spiritual leader of the Islamic militant group Jemaah Islamiah (JI) based in Singapore, he is also linked to the Bali bombing, another unconfirmed report said. A report on Wednesday in several Indonesian newspapers revealed that the U.S. was prepared to...

Asia Times Online, 6306 The Center,  Queen’s Road,  Central, Hong Kong Southeast Asia  Indonesia: The enemy within http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/DJ15Ae02.html By Bill Guerin JAKARTA - For Indonesia the pretense is well and truly over.  President Megawati Sukarnoputri, reading out a prepared seven-point official statement more than 13 hours after the carnage in Bali occurred, said the government expressed its condolences to the relatives of victims in the brutal and inhumane violence, which was against the existing laws, religious teachings and moral values adopted by the Indonesian nation.  In the so-called Island of the Gods where 95 percent of the 3 million population are...

INDONESIA A car explodes pump near the American embassy in Yakarta The vehicle exploded next to the residence of the personnel of the embassy EUROPE PRESS |Yakarta A vehicle loaded with explosives exploded to first hour of today near a building where members of the American embassy in Yakarta reside, according to the Indonesia police has informed.