Protests spread in major cities over caricature The Jakarta Post, Bandung, Semarang, Surabaya Despite calls for restraint, protests intensified in the country’s main cities Monday over the publication in European media of caricatures depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Protesters in most of the cities decried what they considered the use of freedom of the press to justify insulting Islam. About 200 protesters from the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) in West Java town of Bandung threatened to conduct searches for Danish nationalsRead more
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Bali Bomb – Video
I’ve decided not to upload the copy of the video I have – as I’m not sure how my web host would hold up. Instead, here’s a link to the footage online via The Australian. I don’t care to show any images of this, but the Indonesian police have released images of the terrorist’s severed heads to aid in investigations and identification. From The Times Online: Investigators hunting for the masterminds behind three co-ordinated suicide bombings on the island ofRead more
Bali Bombing – Amateur Video Taken
Amazingly, someone happened to be recording video from inside one of the restaurants that were bombed. The Indonesian television has started playing the tape continuously. Basically, a guy was walking through the restaurant with his video camera on, all of a sudden there was a bright flash of light with a booming noise, and everyone was screaming and running into the streets. TheyÂ’ve replayed it in slow motion, and I actually recorded it with my own video camera. If anyoneRead more
Bali Bombing Update
*Update* – “The bodies of 22 people were counted in two hospitals – 11 at Sangla and 11 at Graha Asih – officials there said. Close to 50 others were admitted with injuries, many of them serious,including eight Australians and two Americans.” According to the local news, they’ve found 4 bombs that were not detonated. The local stations are now displaying images of the charred bodies and body parts – something I truly wish they wouldn’t do, out of respectRead more
Bombings in Bali… Again
There have been reports of 3 bomb blasts in Bali. One in Kuta and two in Jimbaran. Details are still very sketchy. I’ll update as more information is known. The Indonesian television is showing more video that will likely never make it to the big networks – always gruesome when they do this (pools of blood on the floor, etc). There are conflicting reports coming in from the local stations that it was 6 bombs, not 3. This is allRead more
Local Television Coverage
Flipping through the various news stations, I came upon MetroTV – an Indonesian station. There is none of the edited footage being looped on BBC or CNN – they’re showing rooms full of children who’ve drowned, stacks of bodies being taken away in ambulances, mothers finding their infants dead. The hardest part is seeing the children – they are showing a dozen children lying in a row, all dead. I’m truly sorry if this image offends you, however, I doRead more