From Jihad Watch:
Indonesia: Jihadists murder two police officers, National Police chief says it's "too early to speculate on motives for the attack"
Motives absolutely opaque! Jihad? Naaah. Islam is a Religion of Peace™!
"Breaking News: Indonesian Police Targeted in ‘Terror Attack,’" by Farouk Arnaz for the Jakarta Globe, May 25 (thanks to Twostellas):
Indonesian antiterror police have been dispatched to Palu, Central Sulawesi, following an apparent terrorist attack that left two police officers dead and a third injured on Wednesday.
A source within the National Police’s elite antiterrorism unit Detachment 88 told the Jakarta Globe that they were “pretty sure what happened today was a terrorist attack.”
“They want revenge and attacked our officer,” the source said. “We have dispatched our officers to investigate this incident.”
The attack comes on the same day firebrand cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, the alleged spiritual leader of regional terrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah, read his defense statement in the South Jakarta District Court.
Palu, an area where JI has been known to operate, is a restive district that has seen repeated incidents of religious violence. Between 1999 and 2001, more than a 1,000 people were killed in violence that spread through Central Sulawesi. Sporadic attacks has continued since....
National Police spokesman Chief Comr. Boy Rafli Amar said it was too early to speculate on motives for the attack.
Posted by Robert on May 25, 2011 11:33 AM
Indonesia: Jihadists murder two police officers, National Police chief says it's "too early to speculate on motives for the attack"
Motives absolutely opaque! Jihad? Naaah. Islam is a Religion of Peace™!
"Breaking News: Indonesian Police Targeted in ‘Terror Attack,’" by Farouk Arnaz for the Jakarta Globe, May 25 (thanks to Twostellas):
Indonesian antiterror police have been dispatched to Palu, Central Sulawesi, following an apparent terrorist attack that left two police officers dead and a third injured on Wednesday.
A source within the National Police’s elite antiterrorism unit Detachment 88 told the Jakarta Globe that they were “pretty sure what happened today was a terrorist attack.”
“They want revenge and attacked our officer,” the source said. “We have dispatched our officers to investigate this incident.”
The attack comes on the same day firebrand cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, the alleged spiritual leader of regional terrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah, read his defense statement in the South Jakarta District Court.
Palu, an area where JI has been known to operate, is a restive district that has seen repeated incidents of religious violence. Between 1999 and 2001, more than a 1,000 people were killed in violence that spread through Central Sulawesi. Sporadic attacks has continued since....
National Police spokesman Chief Comr. Boy Rafli Amar said it was too early to speculate on motives for the attack.
Posted by Robert on May 25, 2011 11:33 AM
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