Jakarta Marriott bombed

Aug. 6 - Yesterday's bombing of a Marriott hotel in Jakarta killed up to 16 people and injured about 150 people in Bomb Update from the Sydney Morning Herald.

Australian PM John Howard laid it out squarely:

"It would appear that the overwhelming majority of people who have been killed and injured are Indonesians.

As were locals the main victims in Bali, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Algeria, the Phillipines ...

"Although it took place outside a hotel which is frequented by westerners and seen as something of a western symbol, the victims were the men and women of Indonesia.

"We Australians should understand this is very much an attack on Indonesia."

The bombing of the Marriott was a symbolic gesture aimed at American interests; the dead and injured in Jakarta were, what? inconvenient? collaterial damage? How about innocent.

I have a hatred for terrorism that goes back decades. I doubt I was the only person who stood and cheered when Pres. Bush declared war on that monstrous inhumanity. Something good was to come out of Sept. 11 because standing by idly while terrorists conducted a worldwide campaign against innocents had already become insupportable, so when they hit us they enabled us to take them on.

I demand an explanation from apologists for terrorists as to how they can justify the murder of Indonesians to damage a stupid building.

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