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Southeast Asia

Pieces of Jakarta blast bomber âidentifiedâ

2003-08-07

Indonesian police say they believe they have identified the bomber responsible for an explosion in a luxury hotel in Jakarta on Tuesday which left at least 10 people dead and scores injured. Police spokesman Brigadier Gorris Mere said that a security camera had recorded the suspect, named only as Asmal, stopping in a vehicle in the US-owned Marriott hotel driveway moments before the explosion. He said that DNA samples taken from body parts recovered from the scene would be compared with samples from Asmalâs parents. Mr Mere also said that police had intercepted an e-mail Asmal sent about six weeks ago which included code words for suicide bombings used by the Islamic militant group Jemaah Islamiah (JI). "In our interception, [he] mentions he wants to marry as soon as possible," Mr Mere told ABC Radio in Australia. "It really it is a... code word of JI [Jemaah Islamiah]... he wants to make a suicide bomb."
"intercepted an e-mail sent about six weeks ago" Did you intercept it 6 weeks ago, or did you just find it? And if you did intercept it 6 weeks ago, what were you waiting for?

"Yup. Yup. Gonna marry me a 72-year-old virgin..."

The explosives and methods used to bomb a luxury hotel in Jakarta on Tuesday were similar to those used in the Bali bombing last year, Indonesian police said on Wednesday. Investigators sifting through debris for clues about the blast said a similar cocktail of high and low grade explosives were used in Bali. Police also said that documents found in the possession of JI members arrested last month indicated an attack in the area around the hotel was imminent and police patrols were stepped up.
Didnât do much good, did they?
The hotel is well-known as a place where foreigners and visiting diplomats stay.
Which is why it was picked as a target.

Posted by:Steve

#3 My wife and daughter work at a local Marriott. I hope the idiocy is confined to the lunipelaigo of Indonesia, and doesn't spread. BTW, the Marriott corporation is owned by members of the Mormon faith, which may be another reason it's been chosen to be "graced" by islamofascists.

Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-8-7 5:10:36 PM

#2 Different suspects from a different bombing:
INDONESIAN police have arrested two people over three recent bombings in the capital, but the pair are not suspected in this week's deadly blast at the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, police said today. Colonel Andi Chairuddin, chief of Jakarta police detectives, said the two men were arrested late yesterday at two separate locations in eastern Jakarta. The two were allegedly involved in a bombing at Jakarta's International Airport on April 28 that injured 11 people, and two other recent smaller blasts at the parliament and near the United Nations building in Jakarta, Chairuddin said.
I'll bet they have the same circle of friends.

Posted by: Steve 2003-8-7 12:41:59 PM

#1 From Reuters: Jakarta, Aug 7: Indonesian police have arrested two men suspected of involvement in the bombing of the JW Marriott Hotel in the capital, Jakarta, Metro Television reported on Thursday. The men had been arrested on the outskirts of Jakarta as suspects in the attack on Tuesday that killed 10 people and wounded 150. Police could not be immediately reached to comment.
Rounding up the usual suspects?

Posted by: Steve 2003-8-7 10:06:45 AM

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