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'How to shoot foreigners' site
A terror website gives instructions on how to shoot foreigners or throw grenades at motorists stuck in traffic in Jakarta.
The website, which police said they would close down, is called Anshar El Muslimin (www.anshar.net), contains diagrams of several locations and why they would be ideal for attacking people and how to escape.
Police called the website a "work of terror" and said it had been set up by one of three men named suspects this week over the October 1 restaurant suicide bombings on Bali that killed 20 victims, including four Australians, as well as three bombers.
Islamic militants linked to al-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiah have carried out a number of car bombings against Western targets in Indonesia in recent years.
But there have been no shootings of foreigners on the streets, a practice seen in parts of the Middle East.
Antonius Reniban, police spokesman on Bali, said a militant he identified as Abdul Aziz, one of three named suspects over the latest Bali attacks, had confessed to designing the website, which would soon be shut down.
"This is a work of terror," Reniban said.
A lawyer for Aziz said his client had been approached several months ago by several people including Malaysia's Noordin Top, a senior figure in Jemaah Islamiah.
"Several people came to him and asked him to create that website. One of them was Noordin M Top," lawyer Muhammad Rifan told Reuters by telephone.
"But he only received material supplied by others. A webmaster is not responsible for the content of the website. He is not part of their group."
Rifan added that Aziz had no link to the Bali attacks.
One diagram on the website showed a computerised schematic of central Jakarta where it said foreigners liked to walk from an office and hotel area to a popular shopping mall. It showed a blue section that it said was the place to attack foreigners.
Another showed how foreigners could be shot when they use overhead pedestrian bridges to cross Jakarta's busy roads.
It gave specific examples of places in Jakarta where traffic banked up, saying this was ideal to shoot motorists or throw grenades or small bombs at targets.
"Grenades can be used to make sure the injured are dead, God willing. Grenades can be normal grenades or fire bombs so that the car burns," it said.
News of the website comes one day after a video was broadcast on local TV showing a masked militant whom police believe is Noordin.
On the video, found last week by Indonesian anti-terrorist police, the masked man warns Western countries, especially Australia, of more attacks.
Ken Conboy, a security expert in Jakarta who has seen some of the website material, said while it was a concern, it did not mean the types of attacks shown would materialise.
He said militants would still need to find good weapons, funding and willing participants to carry out such attacks.
"It's obviously inspiring. You want to see this sort of stuff on the Internet because you want to inspire anyone," Conboy said.
The video was among several found last week as part of raids that resulted in the killing of Malaysian Azahari Husin, the master bombmaker of Jemaah Islamiah.
It was discovered in central Java at a house police have said was rented by Noordin.
Police have been hunting Azahari and Top since the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.
Both men have also been blamed for other attacks.
While Malaysian Azahari was Jemaah Islamiah's bombmaker, police say Noordin is an expert in recruiting suicide bombers.
A terror website gives instructions on how to shoot foreigners or throw grenades at motorists stuck in traffic in Jakarta.
The website, which police said they would close down, is called Anshar El Muslimin (www.anshar.net), contains diagrams of several locations and why they would be ideal for attacking people and how to escape.
Police called the website a "work of terror" and said it had been set up by one of three men named suspects this week over the October 1 restaurant suicide bombings on Bali that killed 20 victims, including four Australians, as well as three bombers.
Islamic militants linked to al-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiah have carried out a number of car bombings against Western targets in Indonesia in recent years.
But there have been no shootings of foreigners on the streets, a practice seen in parts of the Middle East.
Antonius Reniban, police spokesman on Bali, said a militant he identified as Abdul Aziz, one of three named suspects over the latest Bali attacks, had confessed to designing the website, which would soon be shut down.
"This is a work of terror," Reniban said.
A lawyer for Aziz said his client had been approached several months ago by several people including Malaysia's Noordin Top, a senior figure in Jemaah Islamiah.
"Several people came to him and asked him to create that website. One of them was Noordin M Top," lawyer Muhammad Rifan told Reuters by telephone.
"But he only received material supplied by others. A webmaster is not responsible for the content of the website. He is not part of their group."
Rifan added that Aziz had no link to the Bali attacks.
One diagram on the website showed a computerised schematic of central Jakarta where it said foreigners liked to walk from an office and hotel area to a popular shopping mall. It showed a blue section that it said was the place to attack foreigners.
Another showed how foreigners could be shot when they use overhead pedestrian bridges to cross Jakarta's busy roads.
It gave specific examples of places in Jakarta where traffic banked up, saying this was ideal to shoot motorists or throw grenades or small bombs at targets.
"Grenades can be used to make sure the injured are dead, God willing. Grenades can be normal grenades or fire bombs so that the car burns," it said.
News of the website comes one day after a video was broadcast on local TV showing a masked militant whom police believe is Noordin.
On the video, found last week by Indonesian anti-terrorist police, the masked man warns Western countries, especially Australia, of more attacks.
Ken Conboy, a security expert in Jakarta who has seen some of the website material, said while it was a concern, it did not mean the types of attacks shown would materialise.
He said militants would still need to find good weapons, funding and willing participants to carry out such attacks.
"It's obviously inspiring. You want to see this sort of stuff on the Internet because you want to inspire anyone," Conboy said.
The video was among several found last week as part of raids that resulted in the killing of Malaysian Azahari Husin, the master bombmaker of Jemaah Islamiah.
It was discovered in central Java at a house police have said was rented by Noordin.
Police have been hunting Azahari and Top since the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.
Both men have also been blamed for other attacks.
While Malaysian Azahari was Jemaah Islamiah's bombmaker, police say Noordin is an expert in recruiting suicide bombers.
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