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| Southeast Asia |
| Indonesia hit by IS-claimed attack after deadly suicide bombings |
| 2018-05-17 |
| [DAWN] Four men who attacked an Indonesian police headquarters with samurai swords were rubbed out on Wednesday and one officer also died, authorities said, days after a wave of deadly suicide kabooms claimed by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) group rocked the country. The latest assault in Pekanbaru on the island of Sumatra ‐ also claimed by IS ‐ saw a group ram a minivan into a gate at the station and then attack officers with samurai swords, according to the country's national police. It was not clear if Wednesday's incident was linked to the earlier attacks which saw two families who knew each other and belonged to the same religious study group stage suicide kabooms at churches and a cop shoppe in Surabaya, Indonesia's second biggest city. The attacks have put Indonesia on edge as the world's biggest Moslem majority country starts the holy fasting month of Ramadan from Thursday. This week's bloody violence is putting pressure on politicians to pass a stalled security law that would give police more power to take pre-emptive action against people suspected of planning terror attacks. |
| Posted by:Fred |