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    Explosion at Islamic school in Indonesia kills 1

    By ALI KOTARUMALOS - Associated Press | AP – Tue, Jul 12, 2011

    JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A man reportedly trying to show students how to make explosives was killed by a homemade bomb inside an Islamic boarding school in Indonesia, police said Tuesday.

    School officials and students have prevented police from entering the building since Monday's explosion, local police spokesman Lt. Col. Sukarman Husen said.

    But they discovered the body of the suspected bomb maker, a 30-year-old man identified only as Firdaus, on a bus Tuesday as it tried to leave the school compound, he said.

    Eleven people have been taken in for questioning, Husen said, adding that police also confiscated a number of arrows and machetes.

    Husen said the bombing victim was a treasurer at the school, but media reports alleged he was a former bomb trainee in the Philippine region of Mindanao. According to TVOne, he was killed in an unintentional explosion while training students about bomb-making.

    Police are still persuading the school officials to let them enter the compound, Husen said.

    National Police Spokesman Maj. Gen. Anton Bachrul Alam said the explosion was suspected to be from a homemade bomb being prepared to attack the police.

    "Therefore they don't allow police to enter the boarding school," Alam told reporters in the capital, Jakarta. He added that two platoons, including soldiers, were around the complex.

    The school on Sumbawa Island in central Indonesia came to police attention late last month, when a 16-year-old student was arrested for allegedly stabbing to death an officer. Police believe he belonged to an Islamic militant group, and they said he told his interrogators that police deserved to die for hunting down jihadists.

    Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, has been battling terrorists since 2002 when al-Qaida-linked militants attacked two nightclubs on Bali island, killing 202 people, mostly foreigners.

    In recent months, security forces have become the main target of extremists in Indonesia. Militants say they want to punish soldiers and police for taking part in the so-called war against terrorism.

    Hundreds of Islamic militants have been arrested, tried and jailed.

     

    143 comments

    • A Yahoo! User  •  10 mths ago
      Now we all know what they are teaching at Muslim schools, are you listening Whoopi and Joy?
      • undhimmi
        undhimmi 10 mths ago
        the correct name is MoHamMad :)
      • A Yahoo! User 10 mths ago
        How about No Ham Mad ;-)
    • Jennifer
      Jennifer  •  10 mths ago
      Thanks Allah for erasing that scumbag from our beautiful earth! Please explode his friends too
      • Fair Thinking
        Fair Thinking 10 mths ago
        ASAP!
      • paul
        paul 10 mths ago
        all of them jihad
      • Kcmclvr
        Kcmclvr 10 mths ago
        Allah is Satan and his main purpose is to ensure more Muslims are killed for one reason or the other.
    • Paul
      Paul  •  10 mths ago
      They teach children to make bombs at an Islamic school? It can only be "the religion of peace" again.
      • undhimmi
        undhimmi 10 mths ago
        Can they refund my child's field work money? :):):):):)
    • Dale
      Dale  •  10 mths ago
      Justice is served in strange ways, the only problem here is the bomb was not large enough to kill all the future murders.
    • WilliamF
      WilliamF  •  10 mths ago
      Bomb-Making 101: "Listen, students... When you wire up a bomb, never, never, never let these 2 wires touch, like this...BOOM!"
      • kip
        kip 10 mths ago
        LMAO!!!!
    • A Yahoo! User  •  10 mths ago
      Maybe this was the elective class in Suicide Bombing.
    • Beck
      Beck  •  10 mths ago
      "Police are still persuading the school officials to let them enter the compound, Husen said."

      Really? The police are still "persuading" them? How? Harsh language? What a joke. If the police want in, storm the god damned place, and if anyone resists, kill them. The "school" is obviously nothing more than a front for terrorists.
    • xyz
      xyz  •  10 mths ago
      Every facets of Islam is connected to bombs and firearms. I'm sure their teachers are either what they call Islamic scholars or Imams who are supposed to be men of God. God must crying over these bunch of hyprocrites animals.
    • STFU
      STFU  •  10 mths ago
      Perfect!
    • Marillion
      Marillion  •  10 mths ago
      This is why the Burka will and should be banned in most western nations soon. Criminals hiding behind their hijacked religion.
    • Clegane Inc.
      Clegane Inc.  •  10 mths ago
      hilarious
    • Kerry
      Kerry  •  10 mths ago
      We wonder why these kids grow up the way they do, teaching a class in school how to make bombs. #$#
    • Severin Judge
      Severin Judge  •  10 mths ago
      Why am I not surprised?
    • Rube
      Rube  •  10 mths ago
      Muslims are like the "Daleks" on Doctor Who. They only do one thing: KILL.
    • Mark
      Mark  •  10 mths ago
      Wow another muslim country where muslims are killing each other....this is a trend we should endorse, promote and encourage! Where there is islam there is violence. Their muhammed rose to power by leading a violent bloody charge across the now middle east. They just don't know when to stop killing. Uncivilized morons.
    • Marillion
      Marillion  •  10 mths ago
      The true colours of Islam....disgusting.
    • chris
      chris  •  10 mths ago
      They kill their own......................
    • Beck
      Beck  •  10 mths ago
      We need to bomb these people back into the Stone Age.
    • Beck
      Beck  •  10 mths ago
      Islam. The religion of peace. Do we need anymore proof that it isn't just a small percentage of so-called extremists? Islam is an evil religion bent on world domination. And that's all there is to it.
    • Jay
      Jay  •  10 mths ago
      SOUNDS LIKE A WASTE OF AN EXPLOSIAN IF IT ONLY KILLED ONE DIRTY MUSLIM
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