At least 17 people were injured when a man detonated a device he carried with him in the mosque of a police barracks, it was learned Wednesday. This is the most important Islamist attack in the first Muslim country in the world. The explosion occurred during Friday prayers at the mosque to the police Cirebon, small town located 200 km southeast of Jakarta.
The bomber died instantly. A witness said the bomber was "praying" in third place in the Assembly "when the explosion occurred." He was killed and "at least 17 people, mostly policemen, were injured," the spokesman said. The identity and motives of the alleged suicide bomber was not known at the beginning of the afternoon.
Clandestine Islamist networks have made threats against the Indonesian authorities, including police, following a series of raids by anti-terrorist forces in recent months. Several suspects were killed and dozens more arrested. Police had launched the major offensive across the country after the discovery in February 2010 of a secret training center in the province of Aceh in northern Sumatra.
Threats have also been linked to the trial being held in Jakarta, an influential Muslim cleric, Abu Bakar Bashir, 71, who had been imprisoned after the bombing that killed 202 people, including many foreigners, Bali in October 2002 before being released in 2006. 
The bomber died instantly. A witness said the bomber was "praying" in third place in the Assembly "when the explosion occurred." He was killed and "at least 17 people, mostly policemen, were injured," the spokesman said. The identity and motives of the alleged suicide bomber was not known at the beginning of the afternoon.
Clandestine Islamist networks have made threats against the Indonesian authorities, including police, following a series of raids by anti-terrorist forces in recent months. Several suspects were killed and dozens more arrested. Police had launched the major offensive across the country after the discovery in February 2010 of a secret training center in the province of Aceh in northern Sumatra.
Threats have also been linked to the trial being held in Jakarta, an influential Muslim cleric, Abu Bakar Bashir, 71, who had been imprisoned after the bombing that killed 202 people, including many foreigners, Bali in October 2002 before being released in 2006.
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