JAKARTA BOMBINGS-VISITORS TO INDONESIA SHOULD EXPECT
MORE TO COME
Hours before
the attacks, fugitive
al-Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri posted a message
saying South-East Asia "is ripe for a jihadist revival" and
urged attacks like the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, including 88
Australians.
Al Zawahiri primarily
focused on an older 24-minute posting on al-Qaeda's propaganda arm
As Sahab in the region, mentioning Indonesia, Malaysia and the
Philippines.
That video
opens with an old CNN interview with Bali
bomber Amrozi Nurhasyim who said: "My message for
Australians: don't come to places like that ever again... I'm sure that my
colleagues will bomb it again." Amrozi was executed over the
bombings.
Al Zawahiri's posting
contained footage of other Bali bombers and radical Indonesian cleric
Abu Bakar Bashir. The US has a $US25 million reward for the capture
of Egyptian born Al Zawahiri.
The attacks
come after another video was posted on the internet claiming that four
extremist Islamic groups in the southern Philippines had merged, creating a new
potent threat to the region. Leaders of the groups have pledged allegiance to
Islamic State.
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