Indonesia: Suspects planned attack on U.S. Embassy
Indonesian police officers stand guard outside the house of a suspected terrorist after a raid in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012. Indonesian police say they have arrested 11 people suspected of planning a range of terrorist attacks on domestic and foreign targets including the U.S. and Australian embassies. / AP Photo/Jefta
Last Updated 12:28 p.m. ET
JAKARTA, Indonesia Indonesia's anti-terror squad arrested 11 people suspected of planning a range of attacks on domestic and foreign targets including the U.S. Embassy and a site near the Australian Embassy, police said Saturday.
The suspects were arrested in raids Friday and Saturday in four provinces, national police spokesman Maj. Gen. Suhardi Alius said.
He said the suspects belonged to a new group called the Harakah Sunni for Indonesian Society, or HASMI.
"From evidence found at the scene, we believe that this group was well prepared for serious terror attacks," Alius said.
Police seized a number of bombs, explosive materials, a bomb-making manual and ammunition, Alius said. They also found a 3-kilogram (6.6-pound) gas cylinder filled with highly explosive material, which had been assembled at a house in the East Java town of Madiun. Videos and images of attacks on Muslims in various parts of the world were also recovered, he said.
Alius said the group planned to target the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta and a plaza near the Australian Embassy and the local office of U.S. mining giant Freeport-McMoRan. It also planned to attack the U.S. Consulate in Surabaya and the headquarters of a special police force in Central Java, he said.
It was unclear how far the plans had advanced.
Alius said police are still investigating whether the group has ties with established terrorist organizations such as Jemaah Islamiyah. An investigator who spoke in condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to provide information to the media said HASMI's apparent leader, Abu Hanifah, was a Jemaah Islamiyah sympathizer.
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, has been battling terrorists since the 2002 bombings in Bali by militants linked to Jemaah Islamiyah which killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.
Subsequent attacks have claimed more than 50 people, mostly Indonesians. The government has arrested more than 700 suspected terrorists and killed dozens more in an attempt to root out militants.
Earlier this month, police warned of a terrorist threat in Bali targeting a ceremony commemorating the 10th anniversary of the bombings. The country's security alert was raised to its highest level.
Last month, police arrested 10 Islamist militants and seized a dozen homemade bombs from a group suspected of planning suicide attacks against security forces and plotting to blow up the Parliament building. The alleged bomb maker turned himself in to police while wearing an empty suicide vest.
Recent terror attacks in the country have been carried out by individuals or small groups and have targeted security forces and local "infidels" instead of Westerners, with less deadly results. The arrests announced Saturday appear to be the first in recent years to involve a group that allegedly planned to target foreign facilities.
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The president said neither yes or no Friday when asked pointedly whether the Americans under attack in Benghazi, Libya, were denied requests for help during the attack.
Most recently, we had a president of the United States, George W. Bush, proclaim numerous times in public that he believed he was on a mission from God, especially where it pertained to war in the Middle East.
"I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, 'George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.' And I did, and then God would tell me, 'George go and end the tyranny in Iraq,' and I did."
And of course, anyone who is familiar with Christianity throughout history is quite aware of the Christian Crusades. More recently than the Crusades, we have the atrocities committed against Native Americans by Christians, including their priests and pastors, throughout the Americas. And so it goes, throughout history, throughout the world, by many different religious beliefs.
If there was no such thing as religion, would any of these atrocities have occurred or would mankind simply think up another excuse to kill and slaughter one another?
See how humans have fought each other throughout recorded history.
See how many time people have been manipulated into being cannon fodder by appealing to their most deeply held belifs.
So the answer to your question is obvious...yes, there will always be humans able to think up a way, and be able to work their fellow humans into an illogical, unreasonable, arguably insane killing frenzy.
Doesn't matter whether it is the middle east, Africa, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, or America.
The religion is entirely responsible for the violence.
It's the "leaders" who use that religion to first, keep their followers marginally literate so that the followers must, second, rely on those leaders to tell them what their holy books mean.
It's about what it's always about...power. The imams want it no matter how much they claim or even believe they're doing what Allah demands. They're willing to sacrifice thousands of their own followers to get and keep that power...and the money that always follows.