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| Indonesians threaten to hunt down foreigners |
| 2001-10-08 |
A radical Indonesian Muslim group has threatened to hunt foreigners and destroy foreign targets as embassies warned their citizens to stay inside to escape retaliation over U.S.-led strikes against Afghanistan. The small but vocal Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) demanded on Monday President Megawati Sukarnoputri cut ties with Washington and its allies and urged millions of Muslims in the world's largest Islamic nation to lay siege to the U.S. embassy in Jakarta on Monday afternoon. "They are terrorists that must be driven from the face of the earth," the official Antara news agency quoted FPI head Muhammad Rizieq as saying. "The United States is a terrorist nation." International schools closed and the U.S., Australian and British embassies, warning of anti-Western action, urged their nationals to stay inside. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |