All I can say is that if this islamic terror plot had been successful, the carnage in Indonesia would have been mind boggling and now, it is coming out that even a TV journalist, a cameraman, had been recruited by the terrorists to film the entire bombing of the huge Christian cathedral.
From the report at Breitbart:
A TV news cameraman arrested in Indonesian bomb plots had been recruited to film and broadcast the group's terrorist acts, including a foiled Good Friday church attack, police said Saturday.
Global-TV cameraman Imam Firdaus was among 20 suspects arrested in a series of anti-terror raids this week, national police spokesman Col. Boy Rafli Amar said.
The arrests led police to sprawling 3,000-seat Christ Cathedral Church in Serpong, a Jakarta suburb, where they uncovered and safely defused nine bombs, several weighing up to 175 pounds (80 kilograms).
Some were placed under a gas pipeline, and others in bags and plastic containers filled with high-explosive chemicals. The bombs were timed to explode Friday morning.
Just think about that...bombs place under a gas pipeline and then fast forward to a church filled with close to 3,000 Christians (not to mention how many people would be outside in the street). If this had been set off, we could have seen the largest number of dead in an islamic terror attack since 9/11.
This shows the patience of the islamists. For them to have planted all of these bombs unnoticed probably took months. The whole plot probably took over a year to coordinate and bring to the point where it was discovered. And of course, the question is whether this is the only target they had specified or is there another church or another building that has the same explosives already planted under it?
The AP writer of this article goes out of his way to explain at the end that Indonesia is a really moderate Muslim country and there's just a very few extremists...well, there's 20 of these "few" already arrested in this operation and it will probably continue to grow. It's interesting to see how the AP is burying its head in the sand like most of the appeasers here in the West.
20th arrest in Indonesian bomb plots is journalist
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A TV news cameraman arrested in Indonesian bomb plots had been recruited to film and broadcast the group's terrorist acts, including a foiled Good Friday church attack, police said Saturday.
Global-TV cameraman Imam Firdaus was among 20 suspects arrested in a series of anti-terror raids this week, national police spokesman Col. Boy Rafli Amar said.
"He is now being questioned to determine his role in the group," Amar said, adding that Firdaus was offered by another suspect, Pepi Fernando, who was believed to be the group leader.
Arya Sinulingga, news director of the Jakarta-based Global-TV, confirmed Firdaus worked there and expressed remorse over the involvement of media employees in terrorism.
The 20 arrests were made as part of an investigation of mail bombs sent last month in Jakarta to targets the perpetrators blamed for "sins against Islam."
The arrests led police to sprawling 3,000-seat Christ Cathedral Church in Serpong, a Jakarta suburb, where they uncovered and safely defused nine bombs, several weighing up to 175 pounds (80 kilograms).
Some were placed under a gas pipeline, and others in bags and plastic containers filled with high-explosive chemicals. The bombs were timed to explode Friday morning.
Terror suspects in Indonesia can be detained for investigation for up to seven days, then must be charged or released.
Families of the suspects did not want to speak to the media. Friends of Firdaus have been quoted as saying he attended an Islamic university but had secular beliefs.
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, has been battling extremists since 2002 when al-Qaida-linked militants attacked two 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 much less deadly and the last occurred two years ago.
Ninety percent of Indonesians are Muslim, though most practice a moderate form of the faith and abhor violence. A small, extremist fringe has become more vocal, and violent, in recent years.
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