Terrorists Attack in Indonesia: Westerners Targeted

Sunday Paper - July 19th, 2009

by Tom Wright

Jakarta, Indonesia — Eyewitness accounts and closed-circuit television footage of the moments before an explosion ripped through the JW Marriott hotel in Jakarta on Friday have raised fears the suicide bomber may have been purposefully targeting a meeting of largely Western businessmen.

The near-simultaneous suicide attacks on the JW Marriott and Ritz Carlton have killed nine people and injured 53 others. Police suspect the involvement of Jemaah Islamiyah, an al Qaeda-affiliated local terrorist organization blamed for a number attacks in Indonesia between 2000 and 2005 that killed almost 300 people…

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This from The Wall Street Journal - July 19th, 2009

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