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October 08, 2004
Indonesian Embassy In Paris Bombed [Update 3]
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BBC

A bomb has exploded at the Indonesian embassy in Paris injuring up to 10 people including embassy staff. French radio said the blast occurred on the ground floor of the embassy, located in the exclusive 16th district of the capital.

Four staff members are reportedly among those injured.

The bomb was apparently contained in a package left just outside the embassy. Windows in neighbouring buildings were shattered by the blast.

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Update 1 (Oct 8 12:37AM PST)

The explosive device was in a parcel planted at the base of a flagpole outside the embassy, French Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin said.

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Indonesia's president-elect, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, said the blast was a terrorist act.

"I strongly condemn the terrorist act done at the Indonesian embassy in Paris," said Mr Yudhoyono, who is to be sworn in later this month.

"I do hope the government of France will take appropriate action to bring the perpetrator to justice," he told reporters

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Mr de Villepin said he was not aware of any specific threats but the blast was "obviously an act with criminal intent".

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Update 2 (Oct 8 12:52AM PST)

Reuters

President Jacques Chirac, on a visit to Hanoi, reassured Jakarta of France's support following the blast.

"All means will be deployed to shed light on this criminal act," he told the Indonesian representative at an Asia-Europe meeting, Dorod Jatun Kundjoro-Jakti.

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Update 3 (Oct 8 1:31AM PST)

Bloomberg

"We do not want such bomb blasts to worsen Indonesia's image in the international forum," said Hidayat Nurwahid, the newly appointed chairman of Indonesia's parliament, the People's Consultative Assembly, and head of a Muslim political party. "We don't want people to link the bomb blast with Islam and Muslim people around the world."

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Crossposted at Diggers Realm

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Comments

> "We don't want people to link the bomb blast with Islam and Muslim people around the world."

Too late.

Posted by: Achillea [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 8, 2004 08:59 PM

Indonesians rejected the Islamist parties in the recent national elections. Apparently French Islamists were not amused. For the French, the home-grown terrorist is very much a thing of the present.

Posted by: legion [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 9, 2004 10:22 AM

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