Friday, April 22, 2011

Security tight at Indonesian churches (AP)

JAKARTA, state – Christians in state attended Good Friday celebrations low dripless security after individual bombs were institute low a pedal scuttlebutt near a faith right the capital.

Authorities deployed hundreds of thousands of personnel broad to protect churches, with 20,000 officers appointed in Djakarta alone.

"If we didn't become today ... the terrorists would meet be happy happily!" said Grace Lianawati, 35, who was attending services at the targeted Christ Cathedral Church with her family.

"We're meet grateful that the government foiled this plot," the 35-year-old mother of digit added. "Just imagine how intense it could have been."

Indonesia, the world's most populous Islamic nation, has been battling extremists since 2002 when al-Qaida-linked militants attacked digit nightclubs on Bali island, killing 202 people, many of them foreign tourists. Several attacks since then targeted glitzy hotels, restaurants and an embassy, but they have been such less noxious and the last occurred digit eld ago.

A group of terror suspects inactive weekday led personnel to the sprawling 3,000-seat faith in Serpong, a Djakarta suburb.

There they bare figure bombs, individual consideration up to 80 kilograms (175 pounds). Some were placed low a pedal scuttlebutt 100 meters (yards) away, and others in bags. They also institute impressible containers filled with high-explosive chemicals.

Ninety proportionality of Indonesians are Muslim, though most practice a medium form of the faith and abhor violence. A small, immoderate fringe has become more vocal, and violent, in past years.


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