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PALU, Indonesia (Reuters) - A suspected bomb blast rocked a crowded market selling pork in eastern Indonesia on Saturday, killing six people and wounding 45, local media reported. Police said they believed a bomb caused the explosion in the town of Palu, capital of volatile Central Sulawesi province. The blast comes amid a spate of warnings from authorities about militant violence during the Christmas and New Year season in the world's most populous Muslim nation. Pork is forbidden to Muslims, but eastern Indonesia has large pockets of Christians. El Shinta news radio station reported that unexploded bombs had also been...

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Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. JI bomb haul [Jemaah Islamiah in Malaysia] Herald Sun(Melbourne); WORLD; Pg. 37 AFP, REUTERS March 21, 2003 Friday KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysian police say they have found a cache of four tonnes of a bomb-making ingredient after the arrest of a suspected member of the al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiah terror group. Jemaah Islamiah, which aims to create a regional Islamic state in South-East Asia, is blamed for the Bali bombing which killed 202 people last October The fertiliser, ammonium nitrate, was found buried in...