Islamic State claims Jakarta attack

In this Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016 photo, students light candles during a solidarity for those affected by a deadly attack in Jakarta, during a vigil in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia.

Police said four of the attackers and three others were killed in the brazen attacks, which came after several warnings in recent weeks by the police that Islamic militants were planning something big.

Citing unidentified police sources, Reuters and Metro TV News, a news outlet in Indonesia, reported a Canadian man had been killed in the attacks, which have been linked to the Islamic State group.

A man claiming to be an IS leader in Indonesia, who goes by the name of Santoso, to attack the Jakarta police headquarters and fly the black IS flag over the presidential palace, while another IS member, Salim Mubarik Attamini, has also vowed to attack the country.

After all, the militants had hidden at least five more bombs primed for detonation as part of a second wave of attack, before the police killed them and prevented a wider catastrophe.

The self-proclaimed Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attacks, in which seven people were killed.

Earlier Friday, police said the attack was funded by the Islamic State group.

The Indonesian government responded to the incident with deployments of some 150,000 security personnel, and reported an unspecified number of arrests related to the attack. I have ordered the police to capture those responsible for the attacks. Hundreds of Indonesians have left the country to join the group in Syria.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo ordered security forces to hunt down the perpetrators and their network.

Tweets from the account of Jeremy Douglas, regional representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, described a bomb and “serious” exchanges of gunfire on the street outside his Jakarta office.

“We were informed by intelligence that an individual named Bahrun Naim… instructed his cells in Indonesia to mount an attack”, Karnavian said.

He said: “The Starbucks cafe windows are blown out”.

He said that eight cities in Indonesia known for radicalism could be targeted by IS, including Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, Lombok, Balikpapan, Tangerang, Depok and Bekasi.

The attack “was funded by ISIS in Syria through Bahrun Naim”, Haiti told reporters after Friday prayers, using an acronym for the Islamic State.

Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, with a tradition of religious tolerance.

Several foreign governments advise caution while visiting Indonesia, with the British Foreign Office urging its nationals to “maintain vigilance” after the attacks.

“While the police and army have been focused on going after Indonesia’s most wanted terrorist, Santoso, in the hills of Central Sulawesi, ISIS has succeeded in building a network of supporters in the suburbs of Jakarta”, Jones wrote.

‘If they had in mind a Paris-style attack, well then they’ve failed dismally at that’. In 2009, two suicide bombers checked into the JW Marriott Hotel and the Ritz Carlton and carried out co-ordinated bombings, killing themselves and at least six victims and wounding more than 50 others.