Posted on 07/16/2009 7:22:33 PM PDT by red flanker
At least four people have been killed in two separate explosions at luxury hotels in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, say reports. The country's Metro TV reported that one blast hit the Ritz-Carlton and the other, the Marriott Hotel. Television footage showed the facade of one of the hotels had been torn off by the blast. The BBC's Karishma Vaswani, outside the Marriott, said ambulances are present and security is extremely tight. South Jakarta police Col Firman Bundi said the four who died were foreigners, reported AP. "There were explosions heard from two separate places, one the JW Marriott, the other in the Ritz Carlton," he said.
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ROP.
That’s impossible. I didn’t even know there were Amish people in Indonesia! /s
You signed up here on the same date (7/1/04) as I did.
So, I’m not going to give you any grief about not checking the top story in Breaking News.
;-)
Wait, don’t they know that 0bama likes the Muslims?
Bloody Lutherans....
Obama, quick, apologize for the U.S. to them.
They have been there for years — they originated from Arab countries and brought their peaceful religion with them just like they’re doing here.
JW Marriot was hit several years ago by Jemah Islamia. Most of the casualties back then were Indonesian Muslims (80 to 90 percent).
Muslim 86.1%, Protestant 5.7%, Roman Catholic 3%, Hindu 1.8%, other or unspecified 3.4%
Must have been the Lutherans or Baptists. Possibly some nuns from Mother Teresa's Roman Catholic order.
Can't be, no cod for Lutefisk in the tropics. Must have been the Holly Rollers, the Papists, or even more likely the Jooz. It's almost always the Jooz who cause these problems.
Thanks angkor for the twitter link:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23jakarta
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Quote:
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2009/07/explosions_in_jakarta.php
Explosions in Jakarta
By Kenneth Conboy
Two bombs have apparently exploded in Jakarta between 0740 and 0750 local time. The first took place in front of the J.W. Marriott hotel, which was the scene of a 2003 bombing by Jemaah Islamiyah. The second reportedly took place near the Ritz Carlton, which is directly across the street from the Marriott. Further details are still pending.
July 16, 2009 09:41 PM
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http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/jemaahislamiyah/index?tab=articles
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ji/index?tab=articles
2003
UPDATE:
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/07/twin_blasts_rock_two.php
“Twin blasts rock two hotels in Indonesian capital”
By BILL ROGGIOJuly 16, 2009 9:52 PM
SNIPPET: “Eleven people including six foreign guests are reported to have been killed in twin bombings at two luxury hotels in the Indonesian capital, while at least two more people have been killed in other bombings throughout the city.
Near-simultaneous blasts struck the Marriott Hotel and the Ritz-Carlton Hotel early on Friday. The first bomb was detonated at the Marriott. The second bombing at the Ritz-Carlton took place less than five minutes later.
Dozens of people have been reported to have been wounded in the blasts. The facade of the Ritz was heavily damaged during the explosion.
No group has taken credit for the bombings, but Al Qaeda affiliate Jemaah Islamiyah and the Tanzim Qaedat al-Jihad, a splinter group of Jemaah Islamiyah, are the prime suspects. The targets of the attack - foreigners at posh hotels - and the mode of the attack - near-simultaneous detonations - match the profile of attacks used by the al Qaeda-affiliated groups
The bombings in Jakarta are the first such attacks in Indonesia since October 2005, when Bali was rocked by a second suicide attack; 20 people were killed and hundreds were wounded.
In October 2004, the Australian Embassy in Jakarta was hit. Nine people were killed and hundreds more were wounded. Jemaah Islamiyah took credit for the bombing.
In August 2003, Jemaah Islamiyah detonated a bomb at the Jakarta Marriott, killing over a dozen and wounding hundreds.
Jemaah Islamiyah was also behind the deadly attack on the resort in Bali in the fall of 2002 that killed more than two hundred people, including eighty-eight Australians.”
Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/07/twin_blasts_rock_two.php#ixzz0LUpNE5C2
These militant Christians need to stop.
http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers34/paper3310.html
Paper no. 3310
17-July-2009
“TERRORISTS TARGET HOTELS AGAIN-—THIS TIME IN JAKARTA INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO. 543”
By B.Raman
SNIPPET: “ 9. Since luxury hotels patronised by local and foreign social and business elite continue to be among the favourite targets of terrorists, standardised physical security enhancements have to be drawn up. The past enhancements were essentially meant to prevent car bombers and other suicide bombers through tightened access control. How to prevent the fabrication of explosive material and an assembly of an IED inside is a question, which needs urgent attention in the wake of the latest Jakarta blasts.
10.No one has so far claimed responsibility for the Jakarta blasts, but the needle of suspicion points to the Jemaah Islamiyah.
11. Annexed below is a list of attacks on hotels since 9/11. This does not include the attacks on night and tourist spots in Bali in 2002 and 2005 and in Sharm-el-Sheikh in Egypt in 2005.”
http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/001608.html
July 17, 2009
“JAKARTA - SHADES OF MUMBAI?”
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stepping back in time...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2138741/posts
“Breaking : SHOOTOUTS IN MUMBAI [A lot of people killed and injured]”
CNN IBN ^ | Wed, Nov 26, 2008
Posted on November 26, 2008 9:39:53 AM PST by Indian_Fighter_Kite
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