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...After a truck bomb killed more than 50 people at the Islamabad Marriott hotel in September 2008, the FBI interviewed the Vinas family about their son. According to Vinas' father, they indicated that it was just routine. (Read "Islamabad After the Marriott Bombing: The Baghdad Effect...
...July 17 bombings, as well as the assassination of an Australian mining employee working in the remote province of West Papua earlier in the month, reminded the world that foreigners continue to be the intended victims of terrorism in Indonesia. Not only did the bombs detonate at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels, which are popular with foreign guests, but also the suicide attacker at the Marriott appears to have deliberately targeted a group of mostly Western businessmen and diplomats with his explosives. While his counterpart at the Ritz-Carlton focused on the busy restaurant where people were breakfasting...
...Jemaah Islamiah (JI), a homegrown terrorist network, has advocated targeting Westerners in the past, as it did to deadly effect during the 2002 and '05 bombings on the resort island of Bali and a previous assault on the same Jakarta Marriott six years ago. In the latest hotel attack, Indonesian police are now fingering a possible splinter group of JI run by a Malaysian operative named Noordin Top, who has evaded capture for several years...
...investigators follow the terrorist trail, there are, at least, encouraging precedents for the country's economic prospects: the 2003 Marriott bombing didn't result in a major investment outflow, and Bali eventually recovered economically from its attacks, which killed more than 220 people on the island. Indonesians can only hope that the latest effort to dissuade foreigners from doing business in Southeast Asia's biggest economy will also fail...
Indonesia's state-run news agency reported on Saturday that a security supervisor had actually spoken with one of the bombers, shortly before he blew himself up at the Marriott, asking where he was going with a backpack strapped to his chest while also pulling a wheeled suitcase behind him. The man apparently answered that he needed to deliver something to his boss, according to the Antara News Agency. Eerie closed-circuit video footage from the hotel of the moments before the detonation shows a man strolling through the lobby rolling a suitcase behind him. Seconds later, a burst...