Terror returns to Jakarta
The man in the suit and baseball cap appears to struggle with the weight of his suitcase and backpack as he lugs them across the forecourt of the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Jakarta. At this stage little is known about the men who staged Friday's attacks on the Ritz Carlton and Marriott hotels, which left at least nine people dead and dozens injured, although the main suspect is the Jemaah Islamiyah renegade and serial-bomber, Noor Din Top. The last time the Marriott was attacked, in August 2003, the suicide bomber who drove a Toyota van packed with explosives to the hotel's entrance was a graduate of Abu Bakar Ba'asyir's Ngruki Islamic boarding school, 26-year-old Asmar Latin Sani. Asmar was no doubt inspired by the actions a year earlier of another young devotee, named Arnasan, a boy from a poor rice-farming family in West Java, who became JI's first suicide bomber. Despite the great successes of Indonesia's counter-terrorism program in the years since the first Bali bombings, the unflinching devotion of these men has proven impossible to counteract.
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