While Americans are lucky enough to look back on terrorism stateside as a distant memory, some countries get bombed every week. The latest to fall under attack is Indonesia: a couple of luxury hotels in the country’s capitol of Jakarta were struck by missiles just hours ago. The downtown Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott hotels both took big blows, and at least nine people are confirmed dead including a New Zealand foreign national. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited the scene and condemned “the cruel and inhuman attack”.
Not a ton of details have been revealed, but keep an eye on the situation here to stay abreast of any new information (or subscibe to the RSS feed for realtime updates). We send our prayers.
