Indonesia says London blasts show nobody is immune
Posted on: Friday, 8 July 2005, 04:36 CDT
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, condemned the London blasts on Friday and said they showed no country was immune from terrorism.
Four blasts tore through London underground trains and a bus during morning rush hour on Thursday, killing at least 37 people and injuring 700, including an Indonesian.
Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda said the blasts served as a warning to remain vigilant.
"With the bombings at several points above and under the ground, this shows that acts of terrorism can happen anywhere and anytime. No single country is immune," he told reporters.
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said he hallmarks of al Qaeda in the attacks on London's mass transportation system.
Indonesia stepped up its own war on terrorism after Islamic militants bombed nightclubs on the resort island of Bali in 2002, killing 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.
Before that, foreign governments saw Indonesia as one of the weakest links in the global fight against terrorism.
Indonesian authorities have blamed the al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah (JI) militant network for the Bali blasts and for other recent terror attacks in the vast Asian country.
Indonesian police have arrested dozens of militants over the attacks but are still hunting for Malaysians Azahari bin Husin and Noordin Top, allegedly JI's leading bombmaker and recruiter.
Newly installed Indonesian police chief General Sutanto said that manhunt is high on his list of priorities.
"We will keep on trying to arrest them but catching terrorists is not easy," he told reporters.
Charles Humfrey, the British ambassador in Indonesia, told reporters that anti-terror cooperation between his government and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's administration would prevail.
"We welcome the very strong steps and the very ... strong statements that President Yudhoyono and other ministers have made about the need to combat terrorism," he said.
"And indeed, we welcome their statements of sympathy and support and the condemnation of this latest terror act. We will continue our cooperation."
Source: REUTERS
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