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White House Calls Deadly Bombing in Indonesia Reminder Global War on Terrorism Ongoing

Aired August 06, 2003 - 05:31   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: The White House calls the deadly bombing in Indonesia a reminder that the global war on terrorism is ongoing. Fourteen people killed in the attack on the American owned Marriott Hotel in Jakarta.
Our Atika Shubert is there and she joins us live by phone -- bring us up to date.

ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Carol, forensics teams are still sifting through the wreckage trying to find any clues that will lead to arrests. Unfortunately, there are few leads at this point.

Police are saying that they are compiling a sketch of a man that they believe owned the vehicle that was used in the attack. Now, they're not naming any suspects yet, but they say they just simply want the man for questioning, to find out more about how this attack was conducted.

At the moment, investigators are focusing their efforts on a group called the Jamia Islamia. This is an al Qaeda linked terrorist network, the same group that investigators believe carried out the Bali bombings last year.

So far, police don't have any concrete evidence yet, but they're saying they hope to have leads soon -- Carol.

COSTELLO: We have word that the Australian foreign minister is warning that more attacks are imminent.

SHUBERT: That's right. Indonesia is bracing for the possibility of more attacks. In fact, Indonesia's chief security minister came out today saying they would be stepping up security across the country and asking for the public to be wary, looking for any suspicious activity and report it to authorities immediately.

Just to point out, police have been warning for the last few weeks that there was the possibility of terrorist attacks, and not just one terrorist attack, but the possibility of a series of attacks. This is because several Jamia Islamia suspects in custody actually admitting to plotting more attacks and a huge cache of explosives was found in Indonesia last week. And police are worried that there might be more explosives out there and since there are still some key terror suspects at large, they're worried they might have access to those explosives and try to attack again.

COSTELLO: Atika Shubert reporting live from Jakarta this morning.

Thank you for bring you up to date.

For more on the investigation into the Jakarta bombing, click onto our Web site. The address, cnn.com, AOL keyword: CNN.

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Aired August 6, 2003 - 05:31   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: The White House calls the deadly bombing in Indonesia a reminder that the global war on terrorism is ongoing. Fourteen people killed in the attack on the American owned Marriott Hotel in Jakarta.
Our Atika Shubert is there and she joins us live by phone -- bring us up to date.

ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Carol, forensics teams are still sifting through the wreckage trying to find any clues that will lead to arrests. Unfortunately, there are few leads at this point.

Police are saying that they are compiling a sketch of a man that they believe owned the vehicle that was used in the attack. Now, they're not naming any suspects yet, but they say they just simply want the man for questioning, to find out more about how this attack was conducted.

At the moment, investigators are focusing their efforts on a group called the Jamia Islamia. This is an al Qaeda linked terrorist network, the same group that investigators believe carried out the Bali bombings last year.

So far, police don't have any concrete evidence yet, but they're saying they hope to have leads soon -- Carol.

COSTELLO: We have word that the Australian foreign minister is warning that more attacks are imminent.

SHUBERT: That's right. Indonesia is bracing for the possibility of more attacks. In fact, Indonesia's chief security minister came out today saying they would be stepping up security across the country and asking for the public to be wary, looking for any suspicious activity and report it to authorities immediately.

Just to point out, police have been warning for the last few weeks that there was the possibility of terrorist attacks, and not just one terrorist attack, but the possibility of a series of attacks. This is because several Jamia Islamia suspects in custody actually admitting to plotting more attacks and a huge cache of explosives was found in Indonesia last week. And police are worried that there might be more explosives out there and since there are still some key terror suspects at large, they're worried they might have access to those explosives and try to attack again.

COSTELLO: Atika Shubert reporting live from Jakarta this morning.

Thank you for bring you up to date.

For more on the investigation into the Jakarta bombing, click onto our Web site. The address, cnn.com, AOL keyword: CNN.

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com




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