Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta correspondent | July 30
ISLAMIST terrorist Noordin Mohammed Top has claimed responsibility in a website posting for the July 17 Jakarta bomb attacks.
The posting claims the attacks, in which two suicide bombers killed seven people at the
J.W. Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels, were specifically directed at US business interests and at the Manchester United football team, which was to have played an exhibition match in Jakarta.
It promises to release video footage of the bombers' statements. The posting's origin has not been verified, but police say they are investigating.
Identifying itself for the first time as "al-Qa'ida Indonesia", under the auspices of Top, the group claims to have engaged in extensive research before the blasts to identify its targets.
Top has previously called his group, which is an offshoot of the radical Jemaah Islamiah movement founded by preacher Abu Bakar Bashir and the late Abdullah Sungkar, "al-Qa'ida for the Malay archipelago". Read More,,,,
Source: The Australian
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