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| Police may have found Jakarta bomber's laptop |
| 2009-07-19 |
| Indonesian police have recovered a laptop that they believe belonged to one of the bombers of Friday's twin hotel attacks in Jakarta, the country's official news agency said Sunday. The laptop contained information and codes that the attackers may have used to communicate with each other, the state-run Antara News Agency said. The computer was found in a room at the Ritz Carlton, one of two hotels targeted Friday. The other site was the JW Marriott. The blasts killed nine people -- including at least two presumed suicide bombers -- and wounded more than 50. Anti-terrorism officials are investigating the links between the attacks and Noordin M. Top, the suspected leader of a small Jemaah Islamiyah splinter group. The group has ties to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network, but so far there has been no claim of responsibility for the latest attack. Top is reportedly an officer, recruiter, bomb-maker, and trainer for the group, which was involved in a previous attack on the Marriott -- in August 2003 -- as well as attacks on a Bali nightclub in 2003 and the Australian embassy in Jakarta in 2004, according to the FBI. Among the victims who have been identified by Indonesia's health ministry, two were Australian, and one each from New Zealand, Singapore and Indonesia. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 The attack occurred in an area where Indonesia's governing elite, both civilian and military, lives. Not that the terrorist leaders are afraid of dying, but my feeling is that a serious manhunt is going on, and any perpetrators caught are going to be beaten to a pulp to extract every last bit of information they have. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2009-07-19 23:10 |
| #1 TOPIX > JAKARTA BOMBINGS: AUSTRALIA WARNS INDONESIA AT RISK OF MORE TERROR ATTACKS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-07-19 19:40 |