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Southeast Asia
Indonesia foils plot to attack US missions
2012-10-27
Indonesian police have arrested 11 members of an Islamic group allegedly planning attacks on American diplomatic missions in the latest terror alert to hit the country.

The group had planned to hit the US embassy and a US consulate, as well as a building near the Australian embassy in the capital Jakarta that houses the office of American mining giant Freeport-McMoran, police said on Saturday.

They said they were from a new outfit called HASMI, the Sunni Movement for Indonesian Society, and explosives and a bomb-making manual were found when members were arrested in locations across the main island of Java.

"The group's objectives were to attack the US embassy in Jakarta and consulate-general in the eastern Javanese city of Surabaya," national police spokesman Suhardi Alius told reporters.

Indonesia has waged a long battle against terrorism since the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists. The resort island held commemorations this month to mark 10 years since the attack.

Indonesia has not seen a major attack since 2009, when suicide bombers killed nine people in attacks on two five-star hotels in the capital.
Posted by:tipper

#1  The newly announced "Panetta Doctrine" is that we will not act to aid our embassies and consulates unless we have a crystal clear picture of the risk involved in aiding them. Since the picture will never be crystal clear -- that white blob on the video feed might or might not be a guy holding an SA-7 -- the new doctrine is in effect FYBYOYO ("Funk you buddy you're on your own".) So why shuldn't the bad guys plan attacks on our diplomatic missions?
Posted by: Matt   2012-10-27 13:25  

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