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Militant Web site shows how to stage attacks in Jakarta
Fri Nov 18, 2005 6:05 AM GMT
JAKARTA (Reuters) - A Web site purportedly set up under orders from
a leading Asian militant gives instructions on how to shoot foreigners in the
streets of the Indonesian capital or throw grenades at motorists stuck in
traffic.
The Web site, called Anshar El Muslimin (www.anshar.net) and seen
by Reuters on Friday, contains diagrams of several locations and why they would
be ideal for attacking people and how to escape.
Police called the website a "work of terror" and said it had been
set up by one of three men named suspects this week over the Oct 1. restaurant
bombings on Bali that killed 20 people.
Islamic militants linked to al Qaeda have carried out a number of
car bombings against Western targets in Indonesia in recent years, but there
have been no shootings of foreigners on the streets, a practise seen in parts
of the Middle East.
Antonius Reniban, police spokesman on the resort island of Bali,
said a militant he identified as Abdul Aziz, one of three named suspects over
the latest Bali attacks, had confessed to designing the website, which would
soon be shut down.
"This is a work of terror," Reniban said.
SHOOTING FOREIGNERS
A lawyer for Aziz said his client had been approached several
months ago by several people including Malaysia's Noordin M. Top, a senior
figure in Jemaah Islamiah, a shadowy group seen as the regional arm of al Qaeda.
"Several people came to him and asked him to create that website.
One of them was Noordin M. Top," lawyer Muhammad Rifan told Reuters by
telephone.
"But he only received material supplied by others. A webmaster is
not responsible for the content of the website. He is not part of their group."
Rifan added that Aziz had no link to the Bali attacks.
One diagram on the Web site showed a computerised schematic of
central Jakarta where it said foreigners liked to walk from an office and hotel
area to a popular shopping mall. It showed a blue section that it said was the
place to attack foreigners.
Another showed how foreigners could be shot when they use overhead
pedestrian bridges to cross Jakarta's busy roads.
It gave specific examples of places in Jakarta where traffic banked
up, saying this was ideal to shoot motorists or throw grenades or small bombs
at targets.
"Grenades can be used to make sure the injured are dead, God
Willing. Grenades can be normal grenades or fire bombs so that the car burns,"
it said.
News of the Web site comes one day after a video was broadcast on
local TV showing a masked militant whom police believe is Top. On the video,
found last week by Indonesian anti-terrorist police, the masked man warns
Western countries, especially Australia, of more attacks.
Ken Conboy, a security expert in Jakarta who has seen some of the
Web site material, said while it was a concern, it did not mean the types of
attacks shown would materialise.
He said militants would still need to find good weapons, funding
and willing participants to carry out such attacks.
"It's obviously disturbing. You don't want to see this sort of
stuff on the Internet because you don't want to inspire anyone," Conboy said.
The video was among several found last week as part of raids that
resulted in the killing of Malaysian Azahari bin Husin, the master bombmaker of
Jemaah Islamiah. It was discovered in central Java at a house police have said
was rented by Top.
Police have been hunting Azahari and Top since the 2002 Bali
bombings that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.
Both men have also been blamed for other attacks.
While Malaysian Azahari was Jemaah Islamiah's bombmaker, police say
Top is an expert in recruiting suicide bombers.
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