Indonesia: Hotel Bombing Claimed by Group With 15 Million Members

Indonesian Islamic leader names suicide bomber

An Islamic leader in Indonesia has named the suicide bomber who attacked a hotel in Jakarta on Friday.

Abderrahman Assegaf heads an Islamic organisation named the Indonesian Muslim Movement with a claimed membership of 15 million. 

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JEMAAH Islamiah remains the most dangerous terrorist group in Southeast Asia. Although responsibility for these latest attacks in Jakarta remains unclear at this time, the co-ordinated, simultaneous bombings of Western hotels carry the hallmarks of a JI attack.

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“Israel: Foreign Jihadists Are Living in Gaza,” from AP, July 19 (thanks to JW):

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