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Indonesia Muslim group threatens to hit U.S. Embassy
By Tomi Soetjipto
JAKARTA, Sept 18, (Reuters) *****
- A radical lndonesian Muslim group on Tuesday threatened to attack the
U.S. embassy and seek the expulsion of Americans in Jakarta if
Washington carries out revenge strikes against any Islamic nation.
Top officials in Indonesia, home to the world's largest Muslim
population, have already cautioned the United States against resorting
to vengeance for last week's attacks in New York and Washington.
"If the U.S. carries out its threat in the form of military aggression
against any Muslim states then the FPI will perceive it as an act of
terrorism," head of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), Al Habib Muhammad
Riziq Syihab, told Reuters.
"It means that we will attack the U.S. embassy," he said, adding the
group would also seek out American citizens to have them expelled if any
attack takes place.
The FPI is a small but aggressive group which has been behind a number
of attacks in the past year or so against bars and nightclubs, including
some known to be popular with foreigners.
But police, who have beefed up security outside the embassy in central
Jakarta since last week, dismissed the threats.
"We don't think this is a serious threat ... no one has a right to
conduct sweeps except security forces and no one has a right to attack
any buildings in the name of religion," Jakarta Police spokesman Anton
Bahrul Alam told Reuters.
"Of course we will take harsh action," he said.
MEGAWATI ON U.S. VISIT
President Megawati Sukarnoputri is due to arrive in the United States on
Tuesday for a visit officials described as a bid to drum up investment
for the world's fourth most populous nation.
She has expressed sympathy for the attacks and offered to help
Washington in its war against international terrorism.
But the United States has voiced concern over some comments made by
leading Indonesians over the attacks.
In a letter published in the Singapore Business Times, U.S. Ambassador
to Jakarta, Robert Gelbard, said some recent comments by two former
senior Indonesian officials "could create an atmosphere of
misunderstanding and hatred, rather than one of compassion and healing."
Former defence minister Juwono Sudarsono was quoted in a local newspaper
last week as saying Washington should wait before apportioning blame for
the attacks, noting that the U.S. had wrongly accused Middle Eastern
groups for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
And a former aide of ex-President B.J. Habibie wrote in an article that
the attacks might lead to a recognition that U.S. policies had created
a lot of enemies because many saw them as unfair.
DON'T MAKE MUSLIMS SCAPEGOAT
Vice President and leader of the country's biggest Islamic party, Hamzah
Haz, urged the United States not to make Muslims a scapegoat for last
week's attacks.
"Already, people have very mixed feelings about how the U.S. might
respond. Then to have leaders feeding this, makes the whole situation
more dangerous," one Western diplomat said.
However, the general response from the world's fourth largest population
to the attacks has been one of sympathy and the fence outside the U.S.
embassy is lined with floral tributes.
Indonesia has itself traditionally been deeply suspicious of extremist
Muslims, fearful they would undermine the multi-ethnic country's fragile
harmony which has been tested to the limit during the past three years
of domestic political and economic turmoil.
The political mainstream has long rejected attempts to make Islam the
official religion, which 90 percent of the population follows.
Analysts say that renewed attempts to insert a clause in the
constitution to force Muslims to adopt Islamic Sharia law appear doomed
to failure.
04:37 09-18-01
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