 NEW YORK (AP) | updated and moved to WOT Operations. Today's NYT has an article (behind subscription wall) stating that there is a possible tie between the hand mutilation and a rising ultrafundamentalist Islamic group in Indonesia who have threatened hand choppings etc. for those who do not keep sharia in the ways they demand |
-- An Indonesian man was found dead with a knife in his chest on Sunday in the basement of his country's consulate on Manhattan's Upper East Side, police said. A consulate employee found the man, whose identity was not being released until relatives were notified, said police detective Bernie Gifford. There was a knife in his chest, his left wrist had almost been severed, and there were several knives around him. | "Other than that, there is no evidence of foul play" |
Consulate employees told police the man had been staying at the consulate because he was stranded in the United States, Gifford said. He had been in the country since last month. Police were investigating whether the death was a homicide or suicide. Gifford said he did not know whether there were signs of forced entry. | Of the consulate or the dead guy? |
State Department officials were at the scene, he said. A man who answered the phone at the consulate said he could not comment. |