Pakistanis angry over detentions in Times Sq. case Monday, May 24, 2010
ISLAMABAD – Relatives of three men detained by Pakistan for alleged links to the suspect in the attempted Times Square bombing say the men are innocent.
They
AFP - Thursday, August 6TAIPEI (AFP) - - Taiwan's Beijing-friendly government on Wednesday denied boycotting an Australian film festival amid a row over the e
BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered a double blow on Thursday as a senior party ally in east German
Minister seeks closure of anti-Berlusconi websites Wednesday, December 16, 2009
ROME (AFP) - – The Italian government moved Tuesday to close down Internet sites encouraging further violence against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who
By ELAINE KURTENBACH,AP Business Writer AP - Wednesday, March 18SHANGHAI - Asia's stock market rally seemed to be running out of steam Wednesday, despite an
My Profile
Top News
Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day.
Subscribe
You are here:
Home
>
News
>
International
>
Article
Home
Business & Finance
News
U.S.
Politics
International
Technology
Entertainment
Sports
Lifestyle
Oddly Enough
Health
Science
Special Coverage
Video
Pictures
Your View
The Great Debate
Blogs
Weather
Reader Feedback
Do More With Reuters
RSS
Widgets
Mobile
Podcasts
Newsletters
Your View
Make Reuters My Homepage
Partner Services
CareerBuilder
Affiliate Network
Professional Products
Support (Customer Zone)
Reuters Media
Financial Products
About Thomson Reuters
Investigators sift for clues from Indonesia bombs
Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:21am EDT
Email | Print |
Share
| Reprints | Single Page
[-]
Text
[+]
By Sunanda Creagh and Olivia Rondonuwu
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Investigators were sifting through two bomb-damaged luxury Indonesian hotels on Saturday, for clues to those behind suicide attacks that shattered four years of stability in the world's most populous Muslim nation.
Although officials could not say who they believed was responsible for Friday's attacks, suspicion is pointing toward Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the radical militant Islamist group responsible for a string of deadly attacks that seemed to end in 2005.
"It has the signature of our 'friends'," said a retired Southeast Asian police officer now focused on counterterrorism in the region.
The bombers struck the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton, luxury hotels popular with businessmen and diplomats and considered to be among the most secure buildings in the capital.
Police told a news conference on Saturday that nine people were killed and 53 wounded in the blasts, revising a previous death toll after investigators had found it difficult to identify some victims from the remains.
"Of the dead, we believe that three we haven't yet identified include the suicide bombers," Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda said earlier.
The casualties included citizens of Indonesia, the United States, Australia, South Korea, the Netherlands, Italy, Britain, Canada, Norway, Japan and India.
The blasts are a severe blow for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who was re-elected earlier this month in a landslide victory on the back of strong growth in Southeast Asia's biggest economy.
STRING OF ATTACKS
After being rocked by a string of attacks against Westerners in the first part of the decade, Indonesia has been widely credited with successfully tackling militant groups.
Radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, who was alleged to have once headed JI, said the bombs were "a warning from God to Indonesia for not respecting God's law."
"Those who were involved were infidels or apostates, who wanted to impede the jihad in Indonesia," he said in a telephone text message to Reuters.
Questions will now be asked how supposedly tight security was so easily by-passed.
Police said the bombers had checked into the Marriott as paying guests on Wednesday and had assembled the bombs in their room. A third bomb was found and defused in a laptop computer bag on the 18th floor.
A police spokesman told reporters a metal detector had beeped when a bomb hidden inside a laptop bag passed through the scanner, but the bomber had said it was a laptop and the security guards had let him go through. Continued...
View article on single page
Share:
Del.icio.us
Digg
Mixx
Yahoo!
Facebook
LinkedIn
Next Article:
U.S. ready for talks and sanctions for North Korea
Swine Flu
H1N1 virus spreading too fast to count
The World Health Organization says that the H1N1 flu pandemic is the fastest-moving pandemic ever and that it is now pointless to count every case. Full Coverage | Slideshow
Flu outbreak means lost summer for Mexican tourism
Blog: Graphic timeline of global flu pandemics
Factbox: How to fight flu spread
More International News
Honduras crisis talks divided over Zelaya return
| Video
Mexican troops fan out across state hit by drug war
Clinton meets Mumbai victims, serenaded by artisans
China arrests 7 in gun plot against HK democrat: report
Xinjiang riots pre-planned at 50 places: state media
More International News...
Video
CCTV video shows Jakarta blast
Play Video
Deadly Jakarta bomb attacks
More Video...
Related News
Indonesia bomb casualty toll causes confusion
18 Jul 2009
Indonesia blast survivor thought he was going to die
18 Jul 2009
SCENARIOS: What more can top hotels do to boost security?
17 Jul 2009
How the guests in room 1808 may have struck
17 Jul 2009
ANALYSTS VIEWS: Indonesia Jakarta hotel bomb blasts
17 Jul 2009
TIMELINE: Hotels targeted in deadly attacks and bombings
16 Jul 2009
FACTBOX: Five facts about Islamic militants Jemaah Islamiah
17 Jul 2009
Q+A: What will be the impact of Indonesia's hotel bomb attacks
17 Jul 2009
TIMELINE: Attacks and plots blamed on Jemaah Islamiah in Asia
17 Jul 2009
Editor's Choice
Slideshow
A selection of our best photos from the past 24 hours. Slideshow
Most Popular on Reuters
Articles
Video
Dozens hurt in San Francisco rail accident
RPT-CIT in talks with bondholders as bankruptcy looms
RPT-CIT in talks with bondholders as bankruptcy looms
Ahmadinejad: Iran will "bring down" Western foes
Missing soldier appears in video: Al Jazeera
VW to pay $11.28 billion for all of Porsche: report
Vinland Map of America no forgery, expert says
Honduras crisis talks divided over Zelaya return | Video
Muslim Americans encouraged, hopeful after Obama
CIT in talks with bondholders, as bankruptcy looms | Video
Most Popular Articles RSS Feed
Video
Honduras crisis talks start.
World's oldest man dies in UK
CCTV video shows Jakarta blast
Astronauts install station platform
Pilgrimmage tests Iraqi forces
U.S. legend Cronkite dies
Miss Moscow can take the heat
Campaign saves Escobar's hippo
Obama pushes healthcare reform
Sarkozy stirs crowd in New York
Most Popular Videos RSS Feed
We want to hear from you
Join the Reuters Consumer Insight Panel and help us get to know you better
Please take a moment to complete our survey
Reuters.com:
Help and Contact Us |
Advertise With Us |
Mobile |
Newsletters |
RSS |
Labs |
Archive |
Site Index |
Video Index
Thomson Reuters Corporate:
Copyright |
Disclaimer |
Privacy |
Professional Products |
Professional Products Support |
About Thomson Reuters |
Careers
International Editions:
Africa |
Arabic |
Argentina |
Brazil |
Canada |
China |
France |
Germany |
India |
Italy |
Japan |
Latin America |
Mexico |
Russia |
Spain |
United Kingdom |
United States
Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, headline news, small business news, news alerts, personal finance, stock market, and mutual funds information available on Reuters.com, video, mobile, and interactive television platforms. Thomson Reuters journalists are subject to an Editorial Handbook which requires fair presentation and disclosure of relevant interests.
NYSE and AMEX quotes delayed by at least 20 minutes. Nasdaq delayed by at least 15 minutes. For a complete list of exchanges and delays, please click here.