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http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/14/asia/jakar...index.html

Quote:Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN)Attackers struck in the middle of the day Thursday, in the middle of a busy central Jakarta commercial hub -- killing at least two, wounding 19 and raising alarms about terrorism once more, this time in the world's most populous Muslim country.

ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack in an official statement posted online by the terror organization, which was translated by the monitoring group Flashpoint and verified by CNN. Jakarta police chief Tito Karnavian likewise blamed the Syria-based group and singled out a militant named Bahrun Naim, who he said plotted the attack to assert himself among various figures competing to lead ISIS in Southeast Asia.

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It began around 10:55 a.m. Thursday (10:55 p.m. ET Wednesday) with a suicide explosion near a Starbucks on Thamrin Street, an entertainment and shopping district with various Western chain restaurants and stores.

That set in motion two militants outside the coffee shop who seized two foreigners, dragged them into a parking lot and shot them, said Jakarta police spokesman Anton Charliyan. They also opened fire at people on the street.

Heavily armed police soon swarmed the scene, firing on the militants and looking for other attackers.

The attackers responded by firing back and tossing two grenades at the officers, according to Charliyan. Minutes later, two more rode a motorcycle toward a nearby police post and blew themselves up.

Christian Hubel told CNN that he and his colleagues heard five or six explosions, one after the other. And Handi Kurniawan, who watched everything unfold from his office 20 floors above, called the ordeal "horrible."

"We were so scared," Kurniawan told CNN. "We just could not believe that this kind of thing (could) happen again in Jakarta."

This is fucked up. Thamrin is the area I was planning to stay in during my upcoming trip. ISIS needs to be wiped from the face of the earth for once and all.

EDIT: Looks like this is a dupe. I searched the forum for existing threads on this attack, but got no hits. Either way, my bad.

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