Posted on 03/25/2015 6:30:36 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Indonesian terrorists believed to have returned from fighting with the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Syria are suspected of being behind an attempted chlorine bomb attack in a shopping mall last month, police said Wednesday.
The homemade device - made up of several bottles and a detonator - was discovered in the mall south of Jakarta after it failed to go off properly.
Police said it was the first such attack ever attempted in Indonesia.
National Police Inspector General, Tito Karnavian, said the use of the chlorine resembled tactics employed by ISIS jihadists, who have taken over a vast swath of territory in Syria and Iraq.
"It really surprised us," said the former commander of the police's elite counter-terror unit.
"This is a signature of ISIS," he added, referring to the jihadists by an alternative name. "It is connected to a group likely already returned from Syria."
He said police were pursuing "very good leads" into the bomb attempt but would not reveal further details. Exposure to chlorine gas causes intense irritation to the eyes, skin and airways, and can be deadly.
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Nah, they just need to put up some terrorist free zone signs.
Perhaps if they just used a commonsense registration program for the terrorists.
Zero tolerance zone, just like the ones posted in Iraq and Syria.
Or got them jobs. Or a new brain, a heart and courage, and send them home to Kansas.
The world’s not all that far from anarchy.
When I was in Indonesia, they really needed MORE chlorine in many of the places I went.
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