INDONESIA: US TERROR ATTACKS: SEVERAL HUNDRED MUSLIMS RALLY IN GROWING ANGER AT US PLANS TO CARRY OUT RETALIATORY STRIKES ON AFGHANISTAN

Record ID: 215418

  • Title: INDONESIA: US TERROR ATTACKS: SEVERAL HUNDRED MUSLIMS RALLY IN GROWING ANGER AT US PLANS TO CARRY OUT RETALIATORY STRIKES ON AFGHANISTAN
  • Date: 22nd September 2001
  • Summary: MAKASSAR, SULAWESI ISLAND, INDONESIA (SEPTEMBER 22, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE OF RALLY AGAINST THE UNITED STATES 0.05 2. SLV DEMONSTRATORS WITH FLAGS WITH PRO-MUSLIM SLOGANS 0.09 3. SV MAN SPEAKING TO CROWD 0.16 4. VARIOUS OF DEMONSTRATORS / SV BANNER READING 'GO JIHAD' / CU DRAWING OF OSAMA BIN LADEN ON BANNER (4 SHOTS)
  • Embargoed: 7th October 2001 13:00
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  • Location: MAKASSAR , SULAWESI ISLAND, INDONESIA
  • Country: Indonesia
  • Reuters ID: LVA3QPCWEALKOWSOWVJYS8QT83W6
  • Story Text: Several hundred Muslims have rallied in cities across
    Indonesia in growing anger at U.S.plans to carry out
    retaliatory strikes on Afghanistan and for accusing Osama bin
    Laden of orchestrating the deadly attacks.



    Hundreds of protesters gathered in the port towns of
    Makassar on Sulawesi island on Saturday (September 22),
    calling Americans arrogant and threatening to boycott U.S.

    goods.

    Protesters chanted "Buying American or Jewish products
    means giving them money to make bullets to shoot Muslims."
    Protesters chanted anti-U.S. slogans.

    Some analysts in Indonesia have said many in the world's
    largest Muslim country believe the United States has been less
    than even-handed in its support for Israel in the past year of
    violence with the Palestinians.

    Dozens of Muslim students also rallied in front of the
    American consulate in Indonesia's second largest city on
    Saturday, accusing the U.S. of wrongly blaming Saudi-born bin
    Laden for last week's attacks.

    More than 60 riot police moved in to quell the group of
    around 40 protesters from the Islamic Students Action
    Association (KAMMI) in the East Java capital of Surabaya, 675
    km (420 miles) east of Jakarta. There were no reports of violence.

    The bomb squad was also called the to scene to investigate
    a suspicious package, but found no device.

    Saturday's demonstrations are the biggest since the attacks on
    New York and Washington on September 11.

    It is the second anti-U.S. protest to be staged in
    Surabaya this week and follows warnings by Indonesia's Vice
    President Hamzah Haz on Friday against growing anti-American
    sentiment.

    It also comes as hardline Islamic groups in Indonesia
    threaten to launch a holy war against the U.S. if it exacts
    revenge on Afghanistan.

    Washington accuses Afghanistan of protecting bin Laden,
    the man it believes orchestrated last week's attacks in which
    more than 6,000 people are believed to have died.

    At least one of Indonesia's radical Muslim groups, Laskar
    Jihad (Holy Warriors), has been linked to some of the most
    vicious religious fighting in the multi-ethnic country whose
    tradition of tolerance has been stretched to the limit by more
    than three years of crisis.

    Another group, the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), which
    has threatened to attack the U.S. embassy and round up
    American citizens for expulsion, has occasionally attacked
    night spots in Jakarta with apparent impunity.

    But the general feeling among Indonesians over the
    horrific attacks has been one of sympathy and security forces
    have downplayed the threats of anti U.S violence.



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