BREAKING: Several Blasts Heard in Jakarta, Two Other Towns-TV

Reuters ^ | December 18, 2004

[West Coast Conservative]

Several loud blasts were heard in the Indonesian capital Jakarta and two other towns nearby early on Sunday, local Metro TV reported.

It reported residents heard the blasts around 7.30 a.m. (0030 GMT). Police were not immediately available to comment. Western governments have warned of possible terror attacks in Indonesia over the Christmas and New Year period.

[West Coast Conservative]

UPDATE:

Several loud blasts were heard in the Indonesian capital Jakarta and two other towns nearby early on Sunday, although one radio report said it could have been a meteor shower.

Local Metro TV reported residents heard the blasts around 7.30 a.m. (1930 EST) in Jakarta, the satellite city of Tangerang, and also Serang in West Java province. El Shinta radio said it could have been a meteor shower.

Police were not immediately available to comment. A presidential spokesman also said he had no information on the blasts.

Western governments have warned of possible terror attacks in Indonesia over the Christmas and New Year period that could target an international hotel, possibly one of the three Hilton hotels in the world's most populous Muslim nation.

Islamic militants linked to the al Qaeda network have launched several big bomb attacks in recent years in Indonesia.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News website says it was a meteor.

[jolie560]

Reuters would have the inside track on anything terrorist-related.

[Finalapproach29er]

State Dept. called that one.

[oceanview]

what? a meteor?

[Rome2000]

The sky is falling !!!

The sky is falling !!!

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

maybe it was a torpedo......

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041218/wl_asia_afp/indonesiapolitics_041218184828

[FreedomCalls]

CARL PHILLIPS

Ladies and gentlemen, I shall read you a wire addressed to Professor Pierson from Dr. Gray of the National History Museum, New York.

Quote, "9:15 P. M. eastern standard time. Seismograph registered shock of almost earthquake intensity occurring within a radius of twenty miles of Jakarta. Please investigate. Signed, Lloyd Gray, Chief of Astronomical Division," unquote.

Professor Pierson, could this occurrence possibly have something to do with the disturbances observed on the planet Mars?

PROF. PIERSON

Hardly, Mr. Phillips. This is probably a meteorite of unusual size and its arrival at this particular time is merely a coincidence. However, we shall conduct a search, as soon as daylight permits.

[Larry Lucido]

Just so we don't target anyone during Ramadan.

[umgud]

A meteor? Sounds more like a center fuel tank.

[FreedomCalls]

ANNOUNCER TWO

Ladies and gentlemen, here is the latest bulletin from the Intercontinental Radio News. Toronto, Canada: Professor Morse of McMillan University reports observing a total of three explosions on the planet Mars, between the hours of 7:45 P. M. and 9:20 P. M., eastern standard time. This confirms earlier reports received from American observatories.

Now, nearer home, comes a special bulletin from Jakarta, Indonesia. It is reported that at 8:50 P. M. a huge, flaming object, believed to be a meteorite, fell on a farm in the neighborhood of Tangerang, Indonesia, twenty-two miles from Jakarta.

The flash in the sky was visible within a radius of several hundred miles and the noise of the impact was heard as far north as Serang in West Java province.

We have dispatched a special mobile unit to the scene, and will have our commentator, Carl Phillips, give you a word picture of the scene as soon as he can reach there from Princeton.

In the meantime, we take you to the Hotel Martinet in Brooklyn, where Bobby Millette and his orchestra are offering a program of dance music.

[TexasCowboy]

Jakarta is like Hong Kong - crowded, dirty and frantic.

I feel sorry for any ex-pats still living there.
It's a powder keg.

I can see in my mind the Hilton that will be attacked. It's opulent, with ice sculptures every morning on the breakfast buffet and every kind of tropical fruit imaginable.
These jihadi idiots can't stand anything nice. Their preferred lifestyle is living in crap.

[tallhappy]

I bet it was radical Buddhists. Maybe vegetarians.

[BenLurkin]

•Report: Meteor Hits IndonesiA

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,141959,00.html

[BenLurkin]

Reports of meteor fallen to earth in Jakarta

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP): A loud noise that several witnesses said resembled an explosion was heard in parts of Jakarta early Sunday. Media reports said a meteor had fallen close to the capital.

Several callers to el-Shinta radio station reported a noise that sounded like an explosion at around 7.30 a.m in western districts of Jakarta. Metro TV station reported that a large object, suspected to be a meteor, had fallen to earth, also to the west of the city.

Police said they were investigating the reports, but they had no reports of any bombings in the capital.

No other details were immediately available.

[BenLurkin]

Loud noise heard in Jakarta, meteor suspected
Associated Press

JAKARTA, Indonesia — A loud noise several witnesses said sounded like an explosion was heard in parts of the Indonesian capital early Sunday.

News reports said an object that might have been a meteor was seen flashing across the sky above the capital but did not make clear if it had hit the Earth.

Several callers to el-Shinta radio station reported a noise that sounded like an explosion at around 7:30 a.m. local time in western districts of Jakarta.

Metro TV station reported a large object, believed to be a meteor, was seen falling toward the Earth at around the same time, also to the west of the city. The report did not say whether the object had hit the ground.

Police said they were investigating but had no report of any bombings in or near the capital, or of any objects falling from the sky.

No other details were immediately available.

Police have been on high alert in Indonesia in recent days after several foreign governments reported Islamic militants, blamed for a series of attacks in recent years, were planning more bombings.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1103424619831_12/?hub=World

[Quix]

--living in donkey doo
--cooking with donkey doo
--eating and breathing donkey doo
--speaking donkey doo
--reading donkey doo
--dressing in donkey doo
--screaming donkey doo
--blowing up in donkey doo

One might think that their Allah was donkey doo--but actually, a demonic moon god is even worse.

What a culture.

. . . . using the term loosely.

[TexKat]

Reports of meteor fallen to earth in Jakarta

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP): A loud noise that several witnesses said resembled an explosion was heard in parts of Jakarta early Sunday. Media reports said a meteor had fallen close to the capital.

Several callers to el-Shinta radio station reported a noise that sounded like an explosion at around 7.30 a.m in western districts of Jakarta. Metro TV station reported that a large object, suspected to be a meteor, had fallen to earth, also to the west of the city.

Police said they were investigating the reports, but they had no reports of any bombings in the capital.

No other details were immediately available.