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Indonesian Muslim radicals to protest Powell visit

Reuters
Wednesday July 31, 2:59 PM

JAKARTA, July 31 (Reuters) - Hardline Indonesian Islamic groups said on Wednesday they would try to disrupt a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell to Jakarta this week with street protests at key locations. Powell, on a swing through Asia, is to meet President Megawati Sukarnoputri on Friday to discuss ways to help the world's most populous Muslim nation fight terrorism.

Masariku Ambon
July 23, 2002
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This is one of the posters created by Mollucan children at the National Children Day celebration in Ambon.

It says:
" WE DESERVE TO LIVE IN PEACE"

Residents allege military behind latest Ambon blast: priest

Agence France-Presse
Tuesday July 30, 2002

By IAN TIMBERLAKE JAKARTA. Christian residents of the Indonesian city of Ambon suspect soldiers and not their former Muslim enemies were behind a weekend bomb blast that wounded at least 54 people, a local priest said Tuesday. "The people themselves suspect that the military are behind it, which was the case in earlier cases," Father Cornelis Bohm told AFP from Ambon, the capital of troubled Maluku province.

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