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...weeks before the deadly bomb blast at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, senior Indonesian police officers delivered a briefing in that city's dilapidated police headquarters. They announced they were certain the city faced an imminent bomb attack by Islamic extremists but also tacitly acknowledged they could do little to prevent it. A militant captured during a raid in the central Java city of Semarang in early July confessed that he had recently delivered two carloads of bombmaking materials to Jakarta. During the raid, police had discovered drawings outlining specific areas of the city for possible attack by members...
...Jakarta paid the price for that helplessness?or perhaps haplessness?in the face of terror on Aug. 5 when a car bomb exploded in the driveway of the Marriott, killing at least 10 and wounding some 150. Within days, police had announced that they had identified a suspected JI member as the bomber. As in the case of the Bali bombings, the swift response has drawn wide praise. But serious questions remain about just how much more police might have done to prevent the attack in the first place. The latest blast is also a grim reminder that...
...Indonesia: The Jakarta Bomb...
...days before the attack. One source close to the investigation says followup interrogation of four JI suspects arrested in the Semarang raid yielded specific information that the Grand Hyatt, Mulia and the Marriott were possible hotel targets. Also mentioned were the Citraland and Kelapa Gading malls in Jakarta, along with various sites used by Christian congregations. Although police insist that they were increasing security in these areas, in the case of the Marriott, the hotel's management says no warning was ever delivered. Such an omission is particularly alarming when Jakarta security officials themselves knew that JI had at least...
...Indeed, the two carloads of bombmaking materials that one militant confessed to transporting into Jakarta aren't the only resource JI members have at their disposal. Indonesian police say that a suspected JI operative named Rusdi, arrested by police in April in Pekanbaru, Sumatra, has confessed that he left 300 kilograms of explosives in the hands of Azahari bin Husin and Nurdin Mohammed Top, two senior JI operatives with whom he was traveling when he was apprehended. Police believe both were instrumental in the Bali plot, with Azahari responsible for designing and assembling the main bomb. The pair managed...