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Public-relations executive Ruby Purnomo was sitting in his office in the building next door to the Marriott when he heard the first explosion around 8 a.m. "It was small but enough to cause panic," he says. "Our whole building was evacuated as we had been prepared since the first Marriott bombing...
...longer allowed to pull up at the lobby. Instead, guests and visitors are dropped off near the street, go through metal detectors, then walk to the lobby. Same with pickups - people have to walk out to the street. At the Ritz-Carlton, which is connected to the Marriott by an underground tunnel, vehicles are still allowed to pull up to the lobby, but security at the front gate will open both the front hood and the trunk and use mirrors under each vehicle to spot any bombs. Since the first Marriott explosion, police have also gotten better at securing...
...Friday afternoon, the death toll from the attacks on the Marriott and the Ritz Carlton remained at nine with at least 50 injured, including foreign nationals from India, Norway, the U.S., Great Britain, Australia and South Korea. Police now believe that the bombs may have been made on the 18th floor of the Marriott where they found - and defused - a device on Friday afternoon. "This was very well-planned and it would be really hard to protect against this kind of attack," says terrorism expert and security consultant Ken Conboy...
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...
Indonesia's deadliest bombings took place in 2002 in Bali when 202 people died (the single largest group of victims being Australians); JI claimed responsibility. Then came the first Marriott attack, followed by an explosion at the Australian embassy in Jakarta. The last terrorist attack in Indonesia was in October 2005 when 20 people were killed by suicide bombers, also in Bali. Since then, Indonesia has been pretty safe. With the help of American and Australian counterterrorism experts, and the support of the public, the government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has rounded up hundreds of militants since he took...