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| Abu Jibril sez US behind bombing of his house |
| 2005-06-09 |
| Muslim cleric Abu Jibril says a bomb blast outside his house on Jakarta's southern outskirts might have been masterminded by the US in an effort intimidate him into stopping his campaign for an Islamic state. The bomb exploded at about 4.30am Wednesday (8/6/05) outside the rented house occupied by Jibril, his pregnant wife and seven of their 11 children at the Witana Harja residential complex in Pamulang, Banten province. The blast left only a 6-centimeter deep hole in the front yard of the house and caused no injuries, but it could be heard over a radius of several hundred meters, causing many locals to panic. Police found a timer, battery, wires, plastic and low-grade explosives at the scene. Jibril was at the nearby Al-Munawwarah Mosque, performing pre-dawn prayers, at the time of the blast. He was taken to South Jakarta Police headquarters at 11.45am, questioned as a witness from 2pm to 6pm, and then released. Upon arrival at police headquarters, he told reporters the bombing was certainly "engineered", but he initially declined to speculate on the identity of those behind the attack. "This was engineered because I was praying at the mosque when the bomb exploded at my house," he was quoted as saying by detikcom online news portal. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 IFF the US had done it he would be dead. He is alive ThereFORE:: somebody else like some publicity hound dirt bag must have done it to himself.. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2005-06-09 16:55 |