Posted on 11/18/2002 2:38:58 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo
Edited on 11/18/2002 2:46:19 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
"New Terror Threat (to American children) in Indonesia"
The Al Qaeda-linked network that carried out the October 12 nightclub bombings on Indonesia's resort island of Bali is planning to strike international schools in Jakarta, Indonesia, The New York Times reported on Monday, citing Western and Indonesian officials.
The plan to attack Western students at the schools was uncovered in the last few days, and officials said the schools would be closed until at least Wednesday, the Times said in its online edition.
Officials declined to say precisely how they had learned of the plot, but the United States and Australia have stepped up intelligence gathering in Indonesia since the Bali attack, which killed more than 180 people, including many Australians, the newspaper said.
Based on information from Western intelligence agencies, diplomats said the planned attack was directed primarily at the Jakarta International School, (http://www.jisedu.org/) which has 2,500 students, about a third of whom are Americans, the paper said.
Diplomats told the Times the Australian and British schools also plan to close, the report said.
They are to remain closed until Indonesian police provide adequate security, one diplomat told the newspaper.
The plotters are thought to be a cell within the Al Qaeda network of Muslim extremists that has carried out several terrorist actions in Indonesia, and nearly succeeded in blowing up the American, Australian, British and Israeli embassies in Singapore last December, officials told the newspaper.
You and me both...
I honestly believe we should be bombing the crap out of these countries that are harboring these murders. First round, big bombs. Second round, pork. Lots of pork. Ham, Spam, sausage, ribs, pork rinds, whatever. They all believe they will go to meet Allah and get 72 virgins, but not if they've ever touched pork. Let them all be afraid to die instead of willing.
To hell with lethal injection. Get a big black iron skillet and fry these SOBs in bacon drippings.
Then feed the cracklin's to the hogs...
Motion carried. Let the record reflect that LoneRangerMassachusetts proposed that we use daisy cutters instead to protect the environment (I'm assuming he objected because he wants to be able to go in afterwards to suck the oil dry instead of because he's a tree hugger).
Uhm, does anyone know where the button is?
During ramadan would be the best time... :-)
Nice. They'd be all clustered together. We'd get a lot more bang for the buck that way. I like it.
Yeah, just like a bunch of cockroaches...
Indonesian islamist extremists actually had the cowardice to lob hand grenades at the Australian International School (school for the Australian expatriates' kids).
Nobody was injured but parts of the facility were damaged.
Yes, they would do a mass shooting, or poisoning, or car bomb attack on schools where American 7, 8, 9 year old kids are studying overseas.
The terrorists and all of their islamist sympathizers deserve a fate worse than death.
Protecting (American grade school) students (in Indonesia) is difficult not only at the schools, officials said, but also on their way, because they typically travel on buses that take designated routes, or are driven by their parents in cars that bunch up outside the schools before the class day. The plotters are a cell within a larger al-Qaeda network that has carried out several terrorist actions in Indonesia, and nearly succeeded in blowing up the American, Australian, British and Israeli Embassies in Singapore last December, officials said today. That plot was thwarted by the Singaporean authorities. Investigators have concluded that the planners of the failed Singapore plot had moved their resources and efforts to Bali. "It has all the similarities, the same modus operandi," said a Western intelligence official in the region. A local cell bought the explosives and carried out surveillance; foreigners came in to provide expertise; and a high degree of secrecy or compartmentalization kept the locals from knowing who the foreigners were, intelligence officials say.
Were they actually placed under Breaking News?
I have been on and off FreeRepublic almost all day and never saw this on the sidebar for Breaking News.
I would say not. Somewhere around 25 have been slaughtered by Arafats goons over here in the last two years and we still give him money. America shows about the least care about its citizens overseas. But don't feel bad, we feed diplomats to the grinder too. After Arafat kidnapped and killed two of our diplomats in Lebanon we gave him a country of his own, Israel's.
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