Car bomb explodes outside Australian Embassy in Jakarta
Once again, it seems the Muslim fundamentalist terror group Jemaah Islamiyah has struck at foreigners, but murdered the very people they claim to represent.
Of the eight or more dead and the hundred or more injured, all were outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, not inside it.
There were vile scenes of carnage on the street, with Jakarta police desperately trying to keep the crowds back and asking them not to step on the bodies and body parts.
I love these passive-voice headlines ‘bomb explodes’, indeed. As if the car bomb drove itself up and exploded. Sigh. But I like the start of the article. At least I’m not seeing “activists” or “rebels” or “militants” in this one.
OzGuru is following the story, as are Tim Blair and Simon World. All have lots of links and information.
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Thanks for the link.
So far it looks like 11 deaths, 160 casualties (based on the latest radio report) - none of them Australian, most of them Muslim.
It is terrible enough that anyone dies but surely the message must be getting through that the Muslim community need to disown the terrorists?
Just shows you that terrorists are evil nimrods.
Remembered a person interviewed from the street condemning the Marriot bombing because it also killed the locals. Ironically they are all locals this time around!
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