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| Australian embassy body count now up to 6 |
| 2004-09-09 |
| UP to six people have been killed and many more are wounded after in an apparent terrorist attack on the Australian embassy in Jakarta today. Early indications are a bomb was detonated outside the compound, ripping the gates off and killing bystanders. Witnesses reported wounded being stretchered from the compound and at least three lifeless bodies were seen on the street. All Australian staff at the embassy are accounted for, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer is flying to Jakarta tonight and will be joined by team of nine bomb experts and a senior medical officer. Prime Minister John Howard said this afternoon that up to six people were believed dead and the evidence indicated it the explosion was caused by a car bomb. Four cars and the high metal fence surrounding the Australian embassy were damaged. The windows of surrounding buildings were smashed. A severed human leg was lying on the street by the embassy. The blast prompted the immediate evacuation of the embassy and caused a sharp drop on the Jakarta stock market. El Shinta radio station quoted a witness saying a police truck and a taxi in front of the embassy had been blown apart and the high steel fence surrounding the building in the Kuningan business and residential district was damaged. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #14 #7 - But that banner still waves! Find those responsible and crush them. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2004-09-09 12:58:38 PM |
| #13 MF'ers...I saw some video of the people injured, and as usual, Islam exceeds in bringing hell to earth. |
| Posted by: TS(vice girl) 2004-09-09 10:44:04 AM |
| #12 If I worked in Jakarta, I'd probably have a camera at the office for just this reason. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-09-09 10:16:13 AM |
| #11 RN: Interesting timing on the first shot taken (s'hroom cloud). Nothing special here. These dust clouds take a while to dissipate. Just the nature of explosions. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-09-09 10:11:39 AM |
| #10 Interesting timing on the first shot taken (s'hroom cloud). |
| Posted by: RN 2004-09-09 7:26:05 AM |
| #9 That's a big mushroom cloud in the first picture.... |
| Posted by: Charles 2004-09-09 6:53:49 AM |
| #8 Dirty bastards bombed our embassy! International Islamists strike again. Now let me count the number of times the word "Islam" is used in our media..... i hear crickets.... I hear wind in the leaves.... |
| Posted by: Anon1 2004-09-09 5:10:38 AM |
| #7 |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-09-09 2:44:48 AM |
| #6 Photos from SMH (warning: graphic) |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-09-09 2:42:54 AM |
| #5 From Tim Blair's comments: Getting it wrong, really wrong: This story was posted on Antara at 10.19am this morning, or about 1 minute before the bomb blast: Ad Interim Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs, Hari Sabarno, said ... the US travel advisory for American citizens suggesting them not to visit or postpone their travel to Indonesia was exaggerating. ... "Is it true that there is a terrorist threat ahead of the election ? Let's see whether this is true what the US had been worrying about..." |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2004-09-09 2:39:03 AM |
| #4 Oct 9th, Jen, exactly 30 days. |
| Posted by: GK 2004-09-09 2:38:25 AM |
| #3 Those IslamoFacist bastards! Guess they're trying to get Howard out in Oz's election next month... Screw you, evildoers! God Bless Australia! |
| Posted by: GreatestJeneration 2004-09-09 2:14:07 AM |
| #2 Updates at Tim Blair's. |
| Posted by: Pete Stanley 2004-09-09 2:11:25 AM |
| #1 Way to go, losers. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2004-09-09 2:03:01 AM |