Terror threat for Balinese cities
JANUARY 19, 2016 10:26AM
THE Balinese cities of Denpasar and Singaraja could soon be targeted by terrorists responsible for the Jakarta blasts outside the Sarinah shopping mall, according to reports.
Indonesian police are investigating a threatening letter that was sent to a local government office in the Balinese regency of Buleleng that warns the terror network is “ready to blow up these cities in the name of Allah”, according to Fairfax Media.
“Our members are currently present in Denpasar and Singaraja,” it said. The letter also warned they would “attack shopping centres, offices and tourism destinations.”
Buleleng police chief Heri Heriyadi said the letter had been delivered to the local government office at Buleleng before 9am this morning.
“When the letter was opened by administration staff the situation turned quite chaotic,” he said.
“It was a threatening letter, one of our team was there, saw the letter and the ruckus, they immediately took the letter and witnesses to police station, so we can do an immediate follow up.”
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THE Balinese cities of Denpasar and Singaraja could soon be targeted by terrorists responsible for the Jakarta blasts outside the Sarinah shopping mall, according to reports.
Indonesian police are investigating a threatening letter that was sent to a local government office in the Balinese regency of Buleleng that warns the terror network is “ready to blow up these cities in the name of Allah”, according to Fairfax Media.
“Our members are currently present in Denpasar and Singaraja,” it said. The letter also warned they would “attack shopping centres, offices and tourism destinations.”
Buleleng police chief Heri Heriyadi said the letter had been delivered to the local government office at Buleleng before 9am this morning.
“When the letter was opened by administration staff the situation turned quite chaotic,” he said.
“It was a threatening letter, one of our team was there, saw the letter and the ruckus, they immediately took the letter and witnesses to police station, so we can do an immediate follow up.”
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Terror threat for Balinese cities , Today jan 19
There goes the element of surprise.....
But why those two cities? There aren't that many foreigners there.....
The “word” I'm hearing is that this is being considered with the high probability that it's fake. However, even as a fake it is having a huge impact, in that many thousands of Chinese tourists scheduled to spend Chinese New Years (February 8) here in Bali have cancelled.
DFAT (Australia) hasn't reacted to this supposed threat at this time, but this is all over the Australian news.
I was under the impression the idiot terrorists wanted to kill as many people as possible, not warn them of attacks.
That means this is likely to be one of two things:
Designed to create panic and a general mess, but without the bother of killing anyone, or perhaps they can't get their act together at the moment because of police raids against them.
A nut job's fake.
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