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WORLD NEWSFriday 15 January 2016
Islamic State militants claim deadly Jakarta attack Security Council
demands meeting
NINIEK KARMINI was circulated among pro- the remnants of Jemaah presence and ability.
ALI KOTARUMALOS IS groups on other media. Islamiyah. “Their main aim was just to on Syrian sieges
Associated Press The message said attack- Charliyan said police had give impression that ISIS’
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — ers carried out the Jakarta received information in supporters here are able to A. OLSON
The scene had echoes of assault and had planted late November about a do what was done in Paris. Associated Press
the Paris attacks: A bustling several bombs with timers. warning from the Islamic It was just a Paris-inspired UNITED NATIONS (AP) —
shopping area shaken by It differed from Indonesian State group that “there attack without being well The Security Council will
the blasts of suicide bomb- police on the number of at- will be a concert” in Indo- prepared,” he told The As- hold an emergency meet-
ers and gunfire as onlook- tackers, saying there were nesia, meaning an attack. sociated Press. Those at- ing Friday at the request of
ers fled in terror. four. It said they wore sui- Last month, anti-terror po- tacks in November killed Western countries trying to
But when Thursday’s assault cide belts and carried light lice arrested nine suspect- 130 people. press Syria’s warring parties
in central Jakarta was over, weaponry. ed militants and said they Thursday’s first suicide to lift sieges on towns where
the death toll was far low- The statement could not had planned attacks “to bomb went off about 10:50 hundreds of thousands
er. Of the seven killed, five have been cut off from aid
were the attackers them- A plainclothes police officer aims his gun at attackers during a gun battle following explosions in and many are starving.U.N.
selves and only two were Jakarta, Indonesia Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016. Attackers set off explosions at a Starbucks cafe in a Secretary-General Ban Ki-
civilians — a Canadian and bustling shopping area in Indonesia’s capital and waged gunbattles with police Thursday, leaving moon also stepped up the
an Indonesian. Another 20 bodies in the streets as office workers watched in terror from high-rise buildings. pressure, calling Thursday
people were wounded. for both the Syrian govern-
Still, authorities and analysts (AP Photo) ment and rebels to end the
believe the violence that sieges before peace talks
left the city of 10 million on be independently verified attract international news a.m. at the Starbucks, scheduled for Jan. 25 in
edge for hours was a loud by The Associated Press, which is near to some U.N. Geneva as a confidence-
announcement of the Is- though it resembled pre- coverage of their existence offices, a shopping center building measure.
lamic State group’s pres- vious claims made by the and other Western restau- Ban said the United Na-
ence in the world’s largest group, which controls terri- here.” rants, including McDon- tions and its humanitarian
Muslim-majority nation. tory in both Iraq and Syria. ald’s, Pizza Hut and Burger partners are able to deliver
Supporters of the Islamic Jakarta is no stranger to ter- Indonesian authorities King. food to only 1 percent of
State group circulated a rorism, with the 2009 bomb- The neighborhood is home the 400,000 people under
claim of responsibility on ings of two hotels that killed deployed 150,000 secu- to many luxury hotels, high- siege in Syria, down from
social media resembling seven people and injured rise buildings and diplo- an already dismal 5 per-
the militants’ previous mes- more than 50. The bloodiest rity personnel, made arrests matic offices, including the cent just over a year ago.
sages. attack by Islamic extremists French Embassy. “This is utterly unconscio-
The attackers carried hand- in Indonesia — and in all of and said they foiled a plot Karnavian told reporters nable,” Ban said at a news
guns, grenades and home- Asia — was in 2002, when a that after customers ran conference.
made bombs and struck a nightclub bombing on the to kill government officials, out of the cafe, two gun- Ban said both the Syrian
Starbucks cafe and a traf- resort island of Bali killed men outside opened fire, government and rebels
fic police booth in the In- 202 people, mostly foreign- law enforcement officers killing the Canadian and are committing war crimes
donesian capital’s highest- ers. wounding an Indonesian. by deliberately starving ci-
profile attack in six years. Those and others were and others. The heightened At about the same time, vilians and must face jus-
Authorities said they found blamed on the al-Qaida- two other suicide bombers tice.
a large, undetonated inspired Jemaah Islamiyah. security ended Jan. 6. struck a traffic police post “U.N. teams have wit-
bomb and five smaller de- Following a crackdown nearby, killing an Indone- nessed scenes that haunt
vices in a building near the by security forces, mili- Southeast Asian terrorism sian man. Minutes later, a the soul. The elderly and
cafe. tant strikes in recent years group of police were at- children, men and women,
“So we think ... their plan have been smaller and less expert Sidney Jones wrote tacked by the remaining who were little more than
was to attack people and deadly, and have target- two gunmen, using home- skin and bones: gaunt, se-
follow it up with a larger ed government authorities, in November that Bahrum made bombs, Karnavian verely malnourished, so
explosion when more peo- mainly police and anti-ter- said. This led to an ex- weak they could barely
ple gathered,” said Maj. rorism forces. Terrorism ex- Naim has been urging his change of fire that lasted walk, and utterly desper-
Gen. Anton Charliyan, perts say IS supporters in In- 15 minutes and ended with ate for the slightest mor-
the spokesman of Indone- donesia are drawn from Indonesian audience to both attackers dead.q sel,” Ban said. “I would say
sia’s national police. “But that they are being held
thank God it didn’t hap- study the Paris attacks. hostage — but it is even
pen.” worse. Hostages get fed.”
Jakarta police chief Maj. “While the police and army France’s U.N. mission said
Gen. Tito Karnavian said the meeting will take place
the attackers had links with have been focused on go- Friday afternoon. France,
IS and were part of a group Britain and the United
led by Bahrum Naim, an ing after Indonesia’s most States called for the meet-
Indonesian militant who is ing, according to all three
now in Syria. wanted terrorist, Santoso, in missions.
“We have identified all at- Trucks from the U.N. and
tackers,” Charliyan said. the hills of Central Sulawesi, other humanitarian orga-
“We can say that the at- nizations entered three
tackers were affiliated with ISIS has succeeded in build- besieged communities in
the ISIS group,” he added, Syria this week for the first
using an acronym for the ing a network of supporters time in months.
Islamic State group. The town of Madaya
The claim was shared on in the suburbs of Jakarta,” has been under siege for
Twitter late Thursday, and months by forces loyal to
the U.S.-based SITE Intel- Jones wrote. Syrian President Bashar
ligence Group said it also Assad. q
Taufik Andri, a terrorist ana-
lyst, said although the at-
tack ended swiftly and
badly for the attackers,
their aim was to show their
