Word: indonesianness
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Just hours after the hotel explosions, police located and defused an undetonated bomb in a room on the 18th floor of the Marriott, where the bombers had stayed for two nights and presumably assembled their deadly loads. Indonesian police say that the nail-packed high-grade explosive was similar to the bomb materials found at the private home in central Java three days earlier...
Indonesia's Metro TV quoted Nuruddin, an employee at the Marriott, saying that a body with no head or feet had been found. The news station reported that another headless body was found in the Ritz-Carlton, also operated by an American hotel chain and with the same Indonesian owner. "The bombs could have been on timers or strapped to suicide bombers," says Conboy, author of The Second Front, an examination of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), a homegrown, regional terrorist network with ties to al-Qaeda. "If they were suicide bombers it was most likely the work of religious radicals...
...press conference, Yudhoyono also lamented Manchester United's cancellation of their planned soccer match with an Indonesian all-star side next week. "If this hadn't happened, the best-known soccer club in the world would have played in Jakarta," he said. The team had planned to stay at the Ritz-Carlton...
...Even though SBY was a senior member of a deeply unpopular government, he has come to be seen as a victim of that government rather than part of it." - Denny Ja, an Indonesian political analyst...
Read about the lead-up to the Indonesian election...