Religion of Peace Strikes Again in Indonesia
Charles Johnson
Sat Mar 3, 2007 at 9:29 am PST • Views: 733
A nail-bomb attack in the “moderate” Islamic state: Bomb blast at Indonesian port wounds 12. (Hat tip: TS.)
AMBON, Indonesia - A bomb packed with nails exploded at a port in the eastern Indonesian city of Ambon on Saturday, wounding 12 people in a region that has seen deadly Muslim-Christian violence in the past, police said.
The blast in the seaside city on Maluku island shattered months of relative calm there, but follows raids last month by police on neighboring Sulawesi island that killed 14 alleged Islamic militants.
The explosion rocked the port as passengers disembarked from a ship, sending nails and other shrapnel into a crowd of motorbike taxi drivers waiting to collect customers, said Ambon police chief Lt. Col. Trilulus Rahardjo.
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