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Jemaah Islamiyah claims responsibility
06/08/2003 07:49 - (SA)
Singapore - The Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) militant group has claimed
responsibility for the powerful bomb outside a luxury hotel in
Jakarta, describing it as a "bloody warning" against a crackdown on
militants, the Straits Times said on Wednesday.
The newspaper quoted an anonymous JI operative as saying that
the attack should serve as a "bloody warning" to Indonesian
President Megawati Sukarnoputri not to clamp down on Islamic
militants.
"This is a message for her and all our enemies that if they
execute any of our Muslim brothers, we will continue this campaign
of terror in Indonesia and the region," the operative told the
newspaper's Jakarta-based correspondent.
It was in apparent reference to the first verdict in the
trials of alleged JI militants accused of last year's bomb attack
on the Indonesian island of Bali that left 202 people dead due to
be handed down on Thursday.
One suspect, Amrozi Nurhasyim, faces the death penalty if
convicted.
The lunchtime attack at the American-owned JW Marriott Hotel in
Jakarta on Tuesday has killed at least 14 people and injured 152
others, with some of them now in a critical condition.
- AFP
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