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Blasts at Jakarta Ritz, Marriott kill 9

Yudhoyono terms the attack an 'act of terrorism'

AFP, Jakarta
Suspected Islamic militants including a suicide bomber detonated high-explosive devices in two luxury Jakarta hotels popular with foreigners yesterday, killing at least nine people, officials said.
Witnesses described grim scenes with bloodied survivors fleeing in panic from the Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott hotels, as terrorism returned the world's most populous Muslim nation after four years without a major attack.
The broad streets of financial district were littered with glass, debris and smears of blood after the breakfast-time bombings, which sent a huge plume of smoke over the city.
A grim-looking President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, whose crackdown on the extremist Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) appeared to have quelled the extremist threat, said the bombings undermined the security of the entire nation.
He said the attackers "have no humanity and they don't care about the damage done to our country with this act of terrorism, which will have wide effects on our economy, trade, tourism and image in the eyes of the world ’.
Officials said more than 40 other people were injured when two blasts shook the upscale hotels, and pinned suspicion on a JI splinter group led by Malaysian-born bombmaker Noordin Mohammed Top.
Grainy security camera footage at the Ritz-Carlton showed a man wearing a backpack on his chest and carrying a suitcase entering the hotel restaurant moments before a bomb exploded.
The flickering footage aired on the TV One station showed the large open doorway to the restaurant erupting witn glass, debris and smoke as the bomb was detonated inside.
People in the doorway were engulfed by th® blast, while others dived for cover behind furniture and walls. Witnesses described a scene of carnage.
’I was walking outside and I saw three injured people taken to the ambulance," shop assistant Syarif, 32, said.
"They were all foreigners, their faces and bodies all covered in blood. The skin near the eye of one of them was peeling off." he said. At least one foreigner, a New Zealand businessman, was confirmed dead and Australian Prime Minister Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said he had "grave concerns" for three missing Australians including an embassy official.
Rudd condemned the "barbaric" attacks, saying they made him "sick to the stomach".
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, condemning the "senseless" attacks as she headed to Asia for a trip starting in India, said the State Department was working to help an unspecified number of Americans hurt in the blasts.
"The attacks reflect the viciousness of violent extremists, and remind us that the threat of terrorism remains very real," she said.
Manchester United were due to stay at the Ritz-Carlton next week as part of an Asian tour but they cancelled the trip, denying a sell-out crowd of 100,000 the chance to see the English football giants play an Indonesia XI on Monday.
The Marriott was hit in 2003 by a blast that killed 12 people, and Friday's violence bore the hallmark of past attacks blamed on the al-Qaeda-linked JI both in Jakarta and the tourism hotspot of Bali.
National police spokesman Nanan Soekarna con-
firmed at least nine people were killed and 41 were injured, including 18 foreigners, when the blasts struck around 8:00 am (0100GMT).
Despite security measures in place at Jakarta's top hotels, including vehicle searches and metal detectors, police said one blast hit the basement of the Marriott and a second struck the restaurant of the Ritz-Carlton.
An unexploded bomb was later found and defused by police in room 1808 of the Marriott, presidential advisor Djali Yusuf said.
The room was a "control centre" for the attacks, he said, with police discovering explosive chemicals and bomb-making materials in a potential treasure trove of evidence as investigators piece together the attacks.
Officials said seven people were killed at the Marriott and two others at the Ritz-Carlton.