E-MAIL THIS LINK
To: 

Explosion hits Jakarta airport
An explosion has ripped through the departure lounge at Jakarta's international airport, wounding 11 people, at least two of them seriously. The low-explosive blast went off at 6:30 a.m. on Sunday near a passenger pick-up and drop-off area at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, police said. Many of the injured were members of the same family, including a teenager who lost a leg. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. Police believe the bombing was timed to cause a large number of casualties. The bomb was placed under a row of seats near a Kentucky Fried Chicken food outlet. It caused no significant damage to the surrounding area — just a small crater where it went off — leading police to believe it was a low-explosive bomb.
My first stop in looking for whodunnit would be the members of Muhammadiyah, who've been fond of barricading KFCs in Indonesia before. The Indonesian Muslim Students Action Front is also fond of mau-mauing wetern-owned businesses. And the ever-popular Islamic Defenders' Front has been active in attacking beer joints, dance halls, Chinese restaurants, and other dens of iniquity. In the run-up to the Afghan war, they were threatening to hunt down foreigners in Indonesia and run them out of town.


FOLLOWUP:
Indonesia's Security Minister, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono says a bomb that exploded at Jakarta's airport today could be linked to the arrest and trial of extremists from the Jemaah Islamiah movement. The bomb, detonated by a motorcycle battery, blew out windows in a restaurant attached to the domestic and international departures hall spraying the area with glass. The Indonesian government says it will increase security at airports but immediately following the attack there was no change to security levels at the Sukarno-Hatta Airport, where domestic passengers are not required to prove their identity. Yudhoyono said there might be correlation between the attack and trials of suspected extremists in Indonesia. The alleged leader of the Jemaah Islamiah movement, Abu Bakar Bashir, went on trial for treason last Wednesday, and hours later police announced they had arrested 18 more members of the movement and seized weapons and bomb making chemicals.
Yep. That'd kick in the requirement for Dire Revenge™...

Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-04-27
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=13551