An explosion at the Marriott hotel in central Jakarta has left at least 6 people injured.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN ^ | CNN

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Residents look at the damage to the Marriott Hotel after a bomb blast in Jakarta on August 5, 2003. A huge blast killed six people at a luxury hotel in the business center of Indonesia's capital on Tuesday and seriously injured many more, police said. Jakarta detective Andi Chaeruddin said the blast originated in the basement of the Marriott Hotel in Kuningan on the main road that slices through Jakarta's business district. (Enny Nuraheni/Reuters)

Indonesian police stand guard outside the Marriott Hotel after a blast in Jakarta on August 5, 2003. A huge blast killed six people at a luxury hotel in the business center of Indonesia's capital on Tuesday and seriously injured many more, police said. Jakarta detective Andi Chaeruddin said the blast originated in the basement of the Marriott Hotel in Kuningan on the main road that slices through Jakarta's business district. (Enny Nuraheni/Reuters)

Indonesian police walk past destroyed cars at the site of a blast at the Marriott t Hotel in Jakarta on August 5, 2003. A huge blast killed six people at a luxury hotel in the business center of Indonesia's capital on Tuesday and seriously injured many more, police said. Jakarta detective Andi Chaeruddin said the blast originated in the basement of the Marriott Hotel in Kuningan on the main road that slices through Jakarta's business district. (Beawiharta/Reuters)

[MeekOneGOP]

It's amazing that only 10 were killed (Kat's post @ #20). What a mess !!

[Dog]

Looks like they hit a soft target. This was massive bombing by the sounds of it.......damage as far as two blocks away....it was set off during the lunch hour with thousands on the streets nearby.

Also this is near the embassies.

[Catspaw]

The body count is up to 11, according to Fox--and one of the dead is an American.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/958373/posts

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Anti Mormons perhaps

[tomahawk]

Indonesia is an Islamic cesspool.

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forgot sarcasm tag

[mewzilla]

I hope we tighten our security in case this is a signal for another attack to follow.

[Coop]

Looks like they hit a soft target.

They're terrorists. Soft targets are the only things they know how to hit.

Al Qaeda continues to make a lot of noise, yet it continues to conduct operations from terrorist-friendly areas (Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Yemen). Yet more evidence in my book that we're making serious progress against the scum.

[ChadGore]

ROPMA

[ChadGore]

They are now saying 20 dead ??

[ChadGore]

Tue Aug 5, 5:47 AM ET

Firefighters spray waters at the J.W. Marriott Hotel where an explosion went off in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2003. A powerful bomb exploded outside the hotel in downtown Jakarta, killing 10 people and wounding 103 in what an official said was likely a suicide attack. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

[ChadGore]

Xactly like the russian bombing. Xactly like our 911.

[ChadGore]

jihadists slaughtering inosent people in cold blood to demonsrate their delusion that terrorism is an exeptable form of political speach.

It's both ignorant and pathetic.

[ChadGore]

The blast virtually destroyed the lobby area at the front of the hotel.

[ChadGore]

It just goes to show you that we still have work to do in the war on terror.

[ChadGore]

One Aussie and American killed in Indonesian blast

NATIONAL police spokesman Zainury Lubis has confirmed the death toll for the Jakarta blast is 10 - including one Australian.

One American and one Malaysian, as well as seven others, were killed in the blast. No identities or further details were released.

Police were continuing to comb the wreckage for further victims.

The US victim was among seven bodies at the state-run Cipto Mangunkusumo hospital morgue.

An ambulance crew was seen unloading seven plastic bags containing body parts but the crew declined to comment.

"It looks like they were all burned," said a morgue official, Oyon, after the first bodies arrived.

MMC Hospital, one of four which received the dead and wounded from the blast, and the nearest to scene, treated 43 patients but most were quickly discharged, said its spokeswoman Anitya Irna.

She said four patients were in the hospital's burn unit for treatment of burns to about 30 percent of their bodies.

An American and an Australian were among those being treated at MMC for minor injuries, Irna said.

[ChadGore]

We need to "taskforce 20" this guy.

[Coop]

It just goes to show you that we still have work to do in the war on terror.

And we always will. There's no defense of something like this, short of a Nazi state. Intelligence is our only real weapon against terrorism, and that's only effective if we have strong national resolve and true cooperation between countries.

[ChadGore]

Re:And we always will. There's no defense of something like this, short of a Nazi state. Intelligence is our only real weapon against terrorism, and that's only effective if we have strong national resolve and true cooperation between countries.

So very true !