INDONESIA: POLICE RELEASE CCTV PICTURES OF A CAR BOMB DETONATING OUTSIDE THE AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY

Record ID: 358895

  • Title: INDONESIA: POLICE RELEASE CCTV PICTURES OF A CAR BOMB DETONATING OUTSIDE THE AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY
  • Date: 12th September 2004
  • Summary: (W3)JAKARTA, INDONESIA (SEPTEMBER 11, 2004)(REUTERS) 1. WIDE OF NEWS CONFERENCE BY INDONESIA POLICE CHIEF DA'I BACHTIAR 0.04 (W3)JAKARTA, INDONESIA (SEPTEMBER 9, 2004) (REUTERS) 2. SCU RECORDING OF CCTV FROM THE OPPOSITE BUILDING OF AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY WHEN THE CAR BOMB DETONATED; CAMERA OPERATOR SHOOTING; RECORDING OF CCTV AFTER THE BLAST
  • Embargoed: 27th September 2004 13:00
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  • Location: JAKARTA, INDONESIA
  • Country: Indonesia
  • Reuters ID: LVA9MUNKLPINAADRSTZNKKPY6NZF
  • Story Text: Indonesian police release CCTV pictures of a car
    bomb detonating outside the Australian embassy.

    Indonesian police said on Saturday (September 11, 2004)
    they had redoubled efforts to track militants blamed for a
    suicide car bomb attack on the Australian embassy. Police
    also played reporters a videotape of the explosion, filmed
    from a nearby building and showed pictures of the main
    suspects in the bombing.

    One video from a security camera showed a small
    box-shaped van passing in its approach to the embassy,
    located on one of Jakarta's busiest streets and then it
    blasts apart in front of the embassy in a flash of smoke
    and debris before the camera goes blurry.

    At the press conference national police chief, Da'i
    Bachtiar, said that although security had been tightened it
    would be difficult to prevent random attacks.

    "Indonesian police have made efforts to increase the
    level of security at strategic and targeted places such as
    the Australian Embassy, United States Embassy and British
    Embassy in Jakarta but if their modus operandi is similar
    to this, then it will be very difficult for us to prevent
    it," he said.

    Police have been combing densely populated central and
    east Java in the search for two Malaysians, Azahari Husin,
    a bomb-making expert and member of the al-Qaeda-linked
    Jemaah Islamiah, and Noordin Mohamed Top.

    "At the house in Jakarta where he (Azahari) was
    formally staying, we found residue of TNT and sulfur" said
    Bachtiar.

    "We are investigating this group. They (Azahari group)
    are still recruiting new members from East Java, Central
    Java, and West Java. That's how they carry out operations
    such as this attack (Australian embassy bombing)" he added.

    Police sources said that they were investigating
    several people throughout Java who were suspected of
    helping the two men evade police.

    Police added that they had narrowly missed arresting
    Azahari at a house he had been staying at in an industrial
    area on the outskirts of Jakarta, near the International
    Airport.


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