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| Indonesia foreshadows tough anti-terror measures | |
| 2003-08-06 | |
The Indonesian Government is preparing to announce new anti-terrorist measures as police continue to sift through the rubble at the site of yesterday's hotel blast in Jakarta. Investigators have already established the explosion that killed at least 16 people and hurt almost 150 was the work of a suicide car-bomber. Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Security Affairs Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is expected to announce today a tough new Government security policy aimed at overcoming and preventing terrorism. He has asked Indonesians to be prepared to accept the sort of restrictions that could raise the concerns of human rights campaigners. He says preventing the deaths of more victims is worth more than the price of human rights.
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| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #5 Dowd is blaming it all on Bush. Too distracted in Iraq to kick around Jakarta looking for wannabe shihads. |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2003-8-6 4:07:12 PM |
| #4 Y'know, this foolishness by the Izzoids of shitting in their own backyards is going to have to result in a reduction in attacks on the West. Only so much C4 and Semtex and detcord and bomb-makers available at any given time, after all. We've got Milliwati here getting semi-serious (methinks badanov is right - not enough corpses, quite yet) and Perv over in Pakiland talking serious 'bout extremism - generating extremist responses, I'm sure. Soon, a huge pool of asshat Izzoids will be staring at their own navels and biting the hands that have fed them and nurtured their twisted world-view. Cool. Knock yerselves out boyz. |
| Posted by: ·com 2003-8-6 3:30:07 PM |
| #3 Does this mean they're going to quit killing Christians and concentrate on the real problems? Probably not, this is Indonesia after all. |
| Posted by: Douglas De Bono 2003-8-6 11:24:34 AM |
| #2 They woke up after the Bali bombing. They were almost back asleep... |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-8-6 9:57:23 AM |
| #1 "It can't happen to us. We're Muslim." It guess it only took ten additional bodies and an embarassing bombing attack to wake them up, but I have the awful feeling, it may take a far higher body count before they actaully start to get it. Muslim extremists just want a high death toll. They want people dead and they don't want to negotiate on any agenda unless the negotiations can make the death tolls higher. |
| Posted by: badanov 2003-8-6 6:36:51 AM |