[BenarNews] Indonesian police rubbed out an Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
sympathizer who fired at officers at the national police headquarters on Wednesday, the country’s police chief said, about the alleged terrorist attack days after a suicide kaboom at a church in South Sulawesi province on Palm Sunday.
The attacker in Wednesday’s incident, who was a woman, was identified as 25-year-old Zakiah Aini, Gen. Listyo Sigit Prabowo said.
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"She attacked officers guarding the post by firing shots six times. We took firm action against a terrorist who tried to carry out an attack at the national police headquarters," Listyo told a presser.
Listyo said the woman, a university drop-out, had posted social media messages expressing support for the Islamic State hard boy group, or IS.
"The person was a lone wolf who followed the radical ideology of ISIS, which was shown in her social media posts," he said, using another acronym for IS.
Not a member of Jamaah Ansharut Daulah nor a follower of their Telegram site? (They all seem to secretly have Telegram sites where they chat about the holiness of blowing themselves to a fine mist) The day before the attack, the woman had created an Instagram account and posted a black IS flag with a caption calling for a holy war, Listyo said.
The woman left a goodbye letter for her family, the police chief said. In her letter, which circulated online and was published on news websites, Zakiah allegedly urged her family to shun usurious banks, democracy, and elections, calling them the creation of "idolatrous infidels."
"Mama, I’m sorry. I love you Mama. But God loves his servants more. That’s why I have chosen this path as his prophets and messengers did to save me and, by the grace of God, to ask for the salvation of our family in the hereafter," the letter said.
In a video widely circulated on social media and messaging apps, the woman at the national police headquarters appeared to be pointing at officers before falling to the ground.
The police questioned the woman’s parents as officers cordoned their house in an East Jakarta neighborhood.
Indonesia has been on high alert since the Sunday attack in South Sulawesi.
Listyo urged cop shoppes across the country to increase vigilance while "continuing to provide the best service to the public"
On Sunday, a newlywed couple carried out the suicide kaboom at a church in the city of Makassar, police said.
The pair of suspects were on a cycle of violence when they set off at least one bomb at the gate to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral, a Catholic church, as worshippers were leaving a Sunday Mass service, police said.
At least 20 people were maimed in the attack, which killed the bombers.
Listyo said police had arrested 23 people in connection with the Makassar bombing, including a suspect identified only as W, who is believed to have assembled the bombs used in the attack.
Well done, guys! Two days ago you’d only caught thirteen. Police said the suspects killed in the earth-shattering kaboom were members of a local cell of the pro-IS Jamaah Ansharut Daulah bully boy group, which Indonesian authorities linked to a deadly twin-bombing in the southern Philippines two years ago that was also carried out by an Indonesian couple.
RETALIATION
Ridlwan Habib, a security analyst at the University of Indonesia, said bully boyz were trying to retaliate for the recent arrests of their comrades. Police have snared nearly 50 suspects from an al-Qaeda-linked bully boy group in recent weeks.
"The police must be more vigilant, especially as we approach the fasting month of Ramadan," Ridlwan told BenarNews.
"Terrorists often took advantage of the holy month of Ramadan to launch attacks." 
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